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[getweb]

Hey,

This feels like an unusually newbie question for me, but... I think my exim queue isn't running. I was born and raised on qmail :-)

I discovered on a relatively new server that the message queue was backed up nearly a month with messages. Fortunately it wasn't a crazy amount, some were double-bounces, and with the help of exiqgrep I got it caught up manually in about a day on and off.

But today it's obvious messages that fail the first time (ex: greylisted) NEVER get retried. Is this a missing cron job? Or command-line param for exim? I would think a relatively stock cPanel install wouldn't suffer from this but... where do I start checking?

/usr/sbin/exim -bd -oX 587

2008-03-09 04:02:15 exim 4.68 daemon started: pid=13511, no queue runs, listening for SMTP on port 25 (IPv4) port 587 (IPv4) [127.0.0.1]:10025

I mean, that seems fairly obvious right there, but I want to make sure I fix it the right way... in case this is merely a checkbox in cPanel or something... Thanks!

[zacharooni]

To get the current amount of messages in the queue:

exim -bpc

To force a queue run and attempt to flush frozen messages:

exim -qff

To remove all frozen messages:

exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

[david510]

To send and see the mails sending forcefully use below.

exim -bpru |awk '{print $3}' | xargs -n 1 -P 40 exim -v -M