Releasing mail from Quaratine / EXIM

Kevin J Taylor kjt at BDAL.COM
Mon Jun 14 17:25:37 IST 2004


Martin,

Yup, your right.  queue files.

Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Kevin
>
> is the message held as queue files or mbox files??
>
> In Patrick's case he's just not quaranteening as queue files, in your
> case it looks like you've got that option turned on. have a look
> at the files themselves..
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Kevin J Taylor wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there more to this command?
>>
>> /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim_outgoing.conf -t < message
>>
>> I receive this error message when I did this.
>>
>> A message that you sent contained no recipient addresses, and therefore
>> no delivery could be attempted.
>>
>> The email did go when I dropped this into the queue.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick wrote:
>>
>>> Martin,
>>>
>>> Thanks. For your help!
>>>
>>> I am writing this so it gets archived.
>>>
>>> My config is EXIM with MailScanner on Cpanel / RH9
>>>
>>> My configure.out file is located at /etc/exim_outgoing.conf
>>>
>>> My mails are quarantined as raw mail queue files
>>>
>>> To release a quarantine message, go to the directory where the mail is
>>> stored, in my case:
>>>
>>> cd /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20040614/1BZic5-0004xH-Lw     #
>>> 1BZic5-0004xH-Lw is the mail quarantined, for me it was a directory.
>>>
>>> There should be a message file there     # what I saw was     ./     ../
>>> message     when I do a ls
>>>
>>> To send this mail (mail including attachments are all in message),
>>> just use
>>> this:
>>>
>>> /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exim_outgoing.conf -t < message
>>>
>>> You can then check your exim log to see if it got sent out at
>>> /var/log/exim_mainlog
>>>
>>> Credit to Martin Hepworth for his prompt assistance.
>>>
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