Bug#610864: #610864: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

>>>>> "AM" == Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
AM> Stop exim, delete /var/spool/exim4/db/* Restart exim.

Thanks. Obviously they are not in touch with how most people use their
laptops these days, and still assume some university VAX.

I had queued some mail offline, then moved it to a different computer to
send and then didn't boot up this computer for a few days.

OK, now in /root/bin/myshutdown I do
for i in retry wait-remote_smtp_smarthost
do exim_tidydb -t 0d /var/spool/exim4 $i
done > /tmp/eximmmm.$$ #Bug#610864

By the way, in Info, please change
  Mail
  * Exim's interfaces to mail filtering: (filter).
                                  Exim filtering
  * Specification of the Exim Mail Transfer Agent: (spec).
                                  The Exim MTA
to
  Mail
  * Exim's interfaces to mail filtering: (filter).
                                  Exim filtering
  * Exim Mail Transfer Agent Specification: (spec).
                                The Exim MTA
so
  m runs the command Info-menu, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
  function in `info.el'.
can expand it nicer.

(info "(spec) Exim utilities") is full of trailing whitespace ... wait, it is
completely parsed wrong!

In (info "(spec) exim_dumpdb")
please change
     exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim retry
to
     exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim4 retry
Same in (info "(spec) exim_tidydb") etc.
And EXIM_DB(8)
OK, maybe never mind, else the whole exercise must be done again upon
exim5.

On man page -f is not explained other than:
       exim_tidydb [-f] [-t time] spooldir database