Huge amounts of dormant email in exim queue, backed up for 60 days or longer!

[jols]

"Delivery Queue (31907 emails)"

For years I have been trying to figure out how to get exim to get rid of dormant email messages after they have been on queue for over a few days, but so far no luck. Heres the stuff that I have been using so far:

queue_only_override = false
auto_thaw = 1d
ignore_bounce_errors_after = 1d
timeout_frozen_after = 2d
no_message_logs
delay_warning = 0h
log_selector = +arguments +subject

Is there any way to make exim (or cPanel) "smarter" in this regard, or is just something that we're going to have to live with?

 

[kernow]

This sequence works for us:

queue_only_override = false
no_message_logs
log_selector = +arguments +subject
timeout_frozen_after = 4d
ignore_bounce_errors_after = 2d

 

[jols]

Thanks kernow. Hmmmm, this is very similar to what I have.

Is the sequence of commands important here?