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exim4 deleting a mail from the qeue

jontas — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:42:32 +0000

To delete one message from the exim queue

exim -Mrm message-id

To find the ids of all qued mails

mailq

If you wish to delete all the messages to a specific email recipient.

exiqgrep -i -r '' | xargs exim -Mrm

Of if you wish to delete all messages that were sent from a specific email address.

exiqgrep -i -f '' | xargs exim -Mrm

debian: Reconfigure exim4

jontas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:00:45 +0000

To re-configure exim4 on a Debian system just run
“$ dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config”
This will start the configuration process and you will be guided trough the configuration process.

Linux: Turning off window scaling

jontas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:10 +0000

A fairly common issue on the Internet is that some routers can’t handle window scaling.
This will might give some odd messages to email servers (such as not being able to send mails over a certain size to one receiving mail server)

On option is to turn off window scaling by editing sysctl.conf and adding the following lines

# Uncomment to turn off window scaling (most usefull for linux MTA)
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0

A warning about doing this; In the long run throughput will not be optimal on this server, but sending mails should work better (so best used on a dedicated mail server).

DSN 5.0.0 – Service Unavaliable

jontas — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:17:38 +0000

Ran into this error today on a server. Some mails got through but some was not getting through.

Check that /etc/hosts has a FQDN (fully qualified domain name).

Also check the size of the mails being sent, in my case the issue was that mail was to large for the receiving server thus this error message was produced at the sender.

unqualified host name ([something]) unknow; sleeping for retry

jontas — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:32 +0000

sendmail expects to the machine to have a FQDN (fully qualified domain name).

If it does not have that (type “hostname” to check what name the machine has) sendmail will complain about this and take a loot of extra time trying to find it.

To use a FQDN edit “/etc/hosts” and change [something] to [something.yourdomain.com] and this will go away. Updating “/etc/hostname” at the same time might be a good idea; don’t forget to run “/bin/hostname -F /etc/hostname” after updating /etc/hostname.