Delete messages in queue older than xx days ?

[pguy]

Hello Folks,

Noticed that quite a lot of messages in the queue are over 40 days old. Is there a command line way to delete msgs over a certain number of days. I guess exim discards messages older than 7 days, but thats not happening here . Any way to deal with this ?

Regards,

[PWSowner]

They shouldn't be there that long, but you can delete old ones with the find command. Just do a "man find" for full instructions.

Another way, that I would do it, is to use a secure ftp program to ftp to the server, change to the directory, list by date, select everything more than 4 days old, and hit delete.

[pguy]

Perfect. The secure FTP idea works like a gem

Thanks for the idea

[PWSowner]

No problem. That's how I clean up a lot of areas of my server now and then.

[parawing742]

Anyway to have them deleted automatically? I don't like to do maintanance when the software should be capable of doing it itself. My server has had mail in the queue for over 2 months now. It should delete it after several days, right?

[PWSowner]

Mail should automatically be deleted after a certain number of days. Look at your /etc/exim.conf file for a line like "timeout_frozen_after = 4d". I think the default is 7 but I changed mine to 4.

If there is no line like that, add one, then I think you have to restart exim for the change to take effect.

[parawing742]

I've already done that, but like the person who started this thread, I've found that it doesn't work.

[PWSowner]

I found something that may be the answer.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/d..._3.html#TOC136

Lots of nice reading at:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/FAQ.html