If I have a situation where a site I MX for has a known outage I stash all
their mail into a directory in BSMTP format. This is how I do it -
another way would be to use a router rather than a director to do this....
EXICONF_DIR = /var/exim
HELD_DOMDB = EXICONF_DIR/held_domains.cdb
HELD_DOMAINS = cdb;HELD_DOMDB
LOCAL_DOMAINS = ...:HELD_DOMAINS:...
local_domains = LOCAL_DOMAINS
#
# held_domain transport
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#
# This is a transport used to stash held mail into.
# Its basically a BSMTP maildir setup.
held_domain:
driver = appendfile;
directory = /var/spool/mail/held_domains/${lc:$domain},
maildir_format,
user = exim,
group = exim,
mode = 0640,
create_directory,
bsmtp = domain,
prefix = "",
suffix = "",
no_from_hack
.... (separator designed to break Microsoft SMTP implementations)
#
# held_domains director
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#
# Handles domains that are broken in some way so we hold mail
# for them in a bsmtp mail queue
#
held_domains:
domains = "HELD_DOMAINS",
driver = smartuser;
transport = held_domain
When the outage is over I then knock the entry out of the held domains
cdb, and then cat all the BSMTP files into exim -bS (probably with a few
extra options to make it route and queue them).
Not preceisely what you are after, but very useful for me since it keeps
our queues manageable and prevents piles of extra delay messages being
sent out.
Nigel.
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