The way I do this is with a router like:
storemail:
driver = domainlist
transport = storemail
route_file = EXIM_DB/store-domains
search_type = partial-lsearch
and a transport:
storemail:
driver = appendfile
bsmtp = domain
prefix =
suffix =
user = exim
file = STOREDIR/$domain
mode = 0660
Then just make a file called store-domains and stick your file server in
it when you need to not send email to it. In this config, relay_domains
needs to contain lsearch;EXIM_DB/store-domains of course.
When you need to release the mail to the server, just remove the host from
store-domains and pipe the file through exim -bS.
Hope that helps.
Scot
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have spoken to Philip Hazel (from last year!) regarding a problem we
> seem to (still) have, and the conclusion seems to be that there may be no
> easy (any?) solution. I checked the FAQ and the archives as well :-)
>
> We are running exim 3.15 on the University's central mailhub. Mail for staff
> and students is received by the mailhub and sent on the one of several
> Novell file servers. To do this, we recognise the file servers as 'local'
> and use a smartuser director to perform a lookup of the userid in a file and
> then send the message to the corresponding file server. No problem with this.
>
> However, it is not unusual to be asked to 'hold' the mail for all the users
> on a specific file server whilst some problem is sorted out. I thought that
> using the 'hold_domains' option would do this. However, it seems that whilst
> the director directs the message to the correct file server and will indeed
> hold it, mailq shows the original envelope recipient address (which is
> usually 'userid@???'. Thus all the held mail is shown as being
> under 'plymouth.ac.uk' and not the file server in question.
>
> The problem is that we would like to have the mail held under each file
> servers individual name - especially when more than one server is being
> held, and when we are asked how much mail is being held for each server. We
> could write something to scan through the mail queue but would rather have
> hold_domains do what we expected it to do. Unfortunately this does not seem
> possible.
>
> The question then was what do other sites do? I assume (!) that we are not
> the only site making use of the hold_domains option when problems occur, and
> not the only site running a central mailhub which sends mail out to other
> servers (MTA's). What happens when you try and hold a domain but can't see
> what has actually been held or how much mail is held? How do you get around
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
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