How to deliver quarantined email with exim

[Julian Field]

Kirk Lowery wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Julian Field
> <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
>>
>>  Kirk Lowery wrote:
>>  > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Julian Field
>>  > <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >> Move them into /var/spool/exim/input, make sure they have exactly the
>>  >>  same ownership, group and permissions as all the other files in there,
>>  >>  and Exim should pick them up and deliver them.
>>  >>  To hurry the process along, something like
>>  >>  /usr/sbin/exim -C /etc/exit/exit_send.conf -Mc message-id-here
>>  >>  should kick it into making a delivery attempt.
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Thanks for your response.
>>  >
>>  > Here's what happened:
>>  >
>>  > delivering 1Jgjhp-0003fH-PS
>>  > LOG: MAIN
>>  >   Spool file 1Jgjhp-0003fH-PS-D not found
>>  >
>>  > Is there something wrong with my conf file?
>>  >
>>  Not if it normally works. See if you can make the outgoing exim do a
>>  complete run of the queue. It should do this periodically anyway, so the
>>  reason it couldn't find the file might be that it has already been
>>  delivered. Has the files (-D and -H) gone since you moved them there?
>>     
>
> In the incoming exim queue new messages are coming in. They have the
> "-D" and "-H" suffix added to the message id. When I run "exim -q",
> they are delivered just fine. But the messages from the MailScanner
> quarantine directory do not have two files per message with these
> suffixes. There is only one file with the message id as the file name.
>   
You need to look up the "Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files =" 
setting in MailScanner.conf. If you want to be able to release messages 
by dropping them back into the outgoing queue, this needs to be set to 
"yes". I guess yours is "no" right now.

Jules

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