Re: [EXIM] Pausing local deliveries temporarily

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jeffrey Goldberg
CC: Eelco Vriezekolk, Exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Pausing local deliveries temporarily
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.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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