On Mon Apr 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM BST, Haines Brown wrote:
By mistake I sent a message (mutt, fetchmail, exim) that was missing a From: line in the header. As the result I'm deluged with frozen messages.I understand that the command # exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm removed all frozen mail. It does so but the broken messagecontinues to be received.
I'm not sure what is happening exactly, but I think some periodic process is running and generating *new* mail. Frozen mail is not being delivered, by definition: so if you are being deluged, then the problem is not the frozen mail per se, but whatever process is generating both them, and the mail you *are* getting.
Can you share any more details about the messages you are receiving? Ideally, the full mail (including headers) for at least two sample mails (so they can be compared to each other as well as independently examined)
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