I have stopped exim4 by /etc/init.d/exim4 stop but when I run exim -bp my queue list continues to fill. I don't understand why, can someone explain what I'm not understanding?
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Even if the SMTP daemon is not running (i.e. exim4 executed with the -bd option) and hence no messages from the network are added to the queue, exim4 can still accept messages from local users in three other ways:
- when a user calls
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bm(default action), - when a user calls
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bs, - when a user calls
/usr/sbin/exim4 -bS
These three modes of operation differ only in the way messages are submitted, you can find the details in Exim's manual.
What matters for you is that messages can still come in, but since no queue runner (exim4 executed with the -q option) is active, they will never leave it: they will never be delivered to local mailboxes or sent to remote hosts.
Most probably the messages in your queue are sent by CRON, which sends an e-mail every time a job generates some output. However there is only one way to verify it: select some message ID from the output of /usr/sbin/exim4 -bp and run:
/usr/sbin/exim4 -Mvc <message_id>
Piotr P. Karwasz
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