Re: Wish list

On Fri, 2 May 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

>> 2. Some option to just selectively display the queues for certain
>> domains.
>
>The thing is, in Exim there are no "queues for certain domains". There
>is just a pool of messages waiting to be delivered. I could add an
>option to output this information, but it would be doing exactly the
>same work as "exim -bp | grep <domain>" - though of course that isn't
>quite what you want as you probably want the whole message that
>involves that domain. Some kind of perl script, perhaps...

The problem with perl is that "mailq" runs for quite some time when you
have hundreds of messages in the queue. Being able to restrict -bp for
certain domains would help things a bit.

>> 3. Some kind of option to summarize how much mail is waiting for each
>> machine would be good.
>
>By count of messages? By volume? What do you do for a domain with more than
>one MX? Count the message for each machine, or not? To find out which
>messages are waiting for a machine Exim would have to route all the
>undelivered addresses. OTOH, a summary by *domain* would be much easier.
>Another "exim -bp | perl" script could do it.

Ideally I would like a list sorted by domain name and the format

domain #-of-messages volume-in-kb age-of-oldest-message age-of-yougest-messagee

>> 4. Commands to unfreeze all messages or messages matching certain
>> criteria.
>
>Again, some kind of "exim -bp | perl | exim -Mf" script could do this.

Ok. I will look into this.

>> 5. eximon is unusable with huge mail queues.
>
>I'm afraid Eximon was a hack-up of an equivalent program I hacked up for
>use with smail. I always meant to re-write it... The "hide" option can
>help a bit, but I realize it is not ideal.

It might be very extensive work to remodel eximon. Perhaps eximon could
have an option to switch off the queue display?

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