OK, so I'm moving servers and everything is going well. Transfers done and DNS looking good. However, one account's mail screwed up some how, and now I have 2000 messages on the old server in the Exim queue frozen. I've fixed the problems preventing delivery, and if I manually kick off each email, it gets delivered to the new server successfully.

Here is the problem though. If I try to use the "deliver everything in queue" nothing gets delivered because it's all frozen. I've tried various scripts revolving around



But nothing gets returned form that query, so I can't get the message IDs to force a retry.



does seem to have any effect either...

Any ideas! I really don't want to have to click on each email in WHM to get it delivered!

You should try running /scripts/eximup just to reset exim. Then try "deliver everything in queue".

Install configserver's mail queue.

http://www.configserver.com/cp/cmq.html

I always use that mail queue system instead of Exims.

If exim -bp isnt working, try going into the directory itself and checking it out.
I believe the path is /var/spool/exim.

once you are in /var/spool/exim, to view the directory you might want to use "find ./". Mainly because ls just takes to long (at least for my liking!) for a directory with an extremely large number of files to list with ls.

Then you can cat a few files and figure out if they are legit emails or error messages.

Hopefully this helps!

-James

If you need to unfreeze all messages, you could do something like this:




Hope that helps.