Looking for solution for frozen messages

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 08:17:20AM -0400, Haines Brown via Pkg-exim4-users 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 message
>continues to be received.
>
>I went to The "timeout_frozen_after" setting is in
>/etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02_exim4-config_options file and changed
>MAIN_TIMEOUT_FROZEN_AFTER = 7d to 1 hr. That had no effect.
>
>I purged exim4 and deleted the /etc/exi4 directory. I removed mutt
>and fetchmail but assume that was not necessary. I commended the
>existing mail queue and let exim build another. I rebooted and
>rebuilt my mail system from scratch to no avail.

What is in your logs? Please don't obfuscate.

Greetings
Marc

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