On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul Rosenberg wrote:
> As illustrated below, exim -R seems to force delivery of frozen messages.
> This is not documented too well, and is not what was wanted in this case.
Sorry about the documentation. It does say that it forces a delivery of
the first message - unfortunately, it doesn't point out that forcing a
delivery always thaws a frozen message (which is of course what you want
when doing a manual force).
> Circumvention please. I am running Exim 2.12 #13. The same also happened
> with Exim 1.92.
It's always been like that, I'm afraid. On reflection, I think that -R
probably shouldn't behave like a manual force (e.g. -M) and that it
should be changed so as to leave frozen messages alone. If anybody
disagrees, please speak up! However, there is also -Rf, which forces
every message it selects. To do this job properly, all the forcing
options except -M probably need to be split into two: "force, overriding
freezing" and "force, respecting freezing".
However, it requires changes to the code to do any of this, I'm afraid.
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