On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Eelco Vriezekolk wrote:
>
> > I am changing the directory in which local mailboxes are stored, and I
> > would like to pause (halt, delay) local deliveries while I am busy
> > moving maildrop files around.
>
> I haven't actually done this, but I've thought about it when there might
> be a need to manually manipulate a maildrop file.
>
> You could set up an early directory (before most other directors) which
> would look like
It's *much* easier than that!
(1) Put
queue_only in your Exim configuration file.
(2) Stop your daemon and restart it with
exim -bd
i.e. without the -q15 (or whatever), so that it never starts any queue
runners.
Voila! No deliveries are ever done.
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