On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Conor Mc Goveran wrote:
> Hi,
> I am currently vetting exim as a replacement MTA for sendmail. One
> question I do have is this, does anyone use Exim to provide a dial up
> smtp service. That is to queue mails for specific domains at the
> secondary mail server while the primary is off-line. When the primary
> comes online and prods the primary via the ETRN command to do a queue
beware, MSoft ETRN doesn't send the hash, not RFC compliant!!!
but yes, this is doable...
and you can write a finger daemon too which invokes 'exim -M<domain>'.
> run for its domain. Ideally I would like to have a separate queue per
> domain but as far as I can tell Exim does not favour this. Also I would
nope, we couldn't make it do this. split_spool_queue option just splits up
the file space on the basis of messageid.
> be interested to know if there is a way to freeze messages for these
> domains as they enter the queue and then to thaw them as the ETRN
queue_only option, and set timers to looooonnnnngggg values!
> command is issued. This is to allow messages to be queued indefinitely
> while the primary is off-line. Alternatively has anyone used exim in
> conjunction with batchsmtp for this type of product ?
> Regards,
> Conor Mc Goveran.
Paul
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