} On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
}
} > Would it be possible to add another -M option where you pass it a
} > hostname, and exim then invokes a queue run on the first (existing)
} > message queued for that hostname (and presumably picking up other
} > messages queued for that host after delivery of the first through the
} > normal mechanism).
}
} Won't the existing -R option do? It's not precisely what you ask for,
} but what you ask for is expensive, as a message has to be routed
} before the hosts it refers to can be discovered.
As ever, there is always an option hiding that you overlooked...
-R would do as a first cut.
I suppose the slightly better alternative is something like this
(using rather free form psuedo perl):-
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Called as
# prod <hostname>
#
$Hostname = shift;
$Ip = GetHostIpByName(Hostname);
#
$Key = "T:$HostName:$Ip";
open(WAITSMTP, "exim_dumpdb -f wait-smtp|") || die "Ouch! - $!";
@Lines = grep(/^$Key/, <WAISMTP>);
close WAITSMTP;
#
foreach $Line (@Lines) {
($Bit, $Ids) = split(/\s+/, $Line, 2);
system("exim -q $Ids");
}
OK, its pretty rough, but what I mean is that hostname is as near
directly as possible looked up in wait-smtp, and any messages
actually waiting on it are pushed.
This helps more than -R because sometimes lots of domains go to one
target!
Nigel.
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