On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Pieter Immelman wrote:
> I have one or two domains here that I know will be down for a week or
> so. Want to remove their messages from the main queue (there's 2000+
> of them) and use the "outgoing batched smtp" example in 43.10 of the
> documentation to spool it somewhere else. When the domains comes back
> online, would "exim -bS < file" get the mail moving again (after fixing
> the config) ? If not, is there another way of moving spooled messages
> out of the main queue without doing lots of manual "mv"ing ?
I think that would be OK, provided you ran the -bS thing as a trusted
user, so that the sender addresses were believed. I suggest you try an
experment first, to confirm your set up.
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Piete Brooks wrote:
> exim -bp | perl mv.cmd
>
> with some suitable "mv.cmd" should avoid *manual* mv'ing.
... but don't try to do it while Exim is actually working on any of the
messages (e.g. delivering to other addressees). To do it properly you
should lock the -D file before mv'ing, since that is the lock Exim uses
to indicate it is working on a message.
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