On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 01:34:59PM -0400, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> I sent out a messge with mutt and exim. It froze because it may
> have lacked my sender address. Since then I get a message every
> minute like this:
>

>   Fail Delivery S ( 5)      Message frozen

>
> There is no indication of frozen mesasges in mail log. Resarting
> exim, fetchmail and mutt had no effect

I tried to remove any message in the mail queue sent from my address:

# exiqgrep -f haines@???

Frozen messages continue. I try to remove all frozen messages:

# exim -bp|grep frozen|awk '{print $3}' |xargs exim -Mrm

This removes frozen messages but the frozen messsages continue.
Assuming instead that the message I sent was from <>, I did

# exiqgrep -f "^<>$" -i | xargs exim -Mrm

This removed a list of frozen messages, but they continue
I try to remove all frozen messages:

# exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Again a list of frozen message is removed, but I still get them.

It seems that the message queue displays messages that have
already been sent, but not messages awaiting to be sent. Are
there different queues? What command serves to manipulte a queue
for messages yet to be sent?


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     Haines Brown