On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, James FitzGibbon wrote:
> * Kevin J Collins (K.J.Collins@???) [990330 07:40]:
>
> > How can I make Exim (2.12) receive incoming mail, queue it but NOT
> > attempt to deliver it?
> >
> > The reason for this is that I'm going to be migrating a whole load of
> > mailboxes over to the Exim system, and I don't want to lose any mail
> > during the process.
>
> Temporarily, just kill off your exim daemon and restart it with '-bd -odq'
> for arguments. Longer term (via the config file), you'd want to add the
> 'queue_only' option to the main part of your configuration file.
If you are receiving mail locally it doesn't go via the daemon, so you
need to set queue_only and then HUP the daemon to ensure that *all*
incoming mail gets queued.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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