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Q5029
Question
A message with a recipient address that contains a non-printing character is stuck on my mail queue. How can I remove this address?
Answer
You can use the -Mmd command line option to mark a recipient address “delivered”, which effectively removes it. If you are using the Bash shell, you can enter non-printing characters using an escape sequence. For example:
exim -Mmd 15HKvU-00013Q-00 $'\240'abc@x.y.z
In this example, the first character of the local part has a code value of 240. If you are using a shell that does not support this, create the command in a file and run it as a shell script.
FAQ / Miscellaneous / Q5029