How to deliver quarantined email with exim

[Julian Field]

Julian Field wrote:
>
>
> 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.
It is currently set to no by default when you install MailScanner the 
first time.
Should I leave it at "no" or change it to "yes"?
Discuss.

Jules

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