Re: [EXIM] freeze on queueing and delaying delivery

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: James Fidell
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] freeze on queueing and delaying delivery
On Tue, 18 May 1999, James Fidell wrote:

> Also, I'd like to be able to specify a minimum delay when queueing a
> message so that no delivery will be attempted (unless forced) before that
> time period is up. Is this possible ?


Not within Exim, no. It does not do waiting/retrying on a per message
basis. You could freeze the message and write some external program that
unfroze it when its time was up, I suppose.

Out of curiousity, what is the rationale behind artificially delaying
mail like this?

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



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