On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Horne wrote:
> I used the
> exim '-N' option to prevent the messages from being delivered.
This isn't an answer to your original problem, but I thought I should
say something about the '-N' option. It is very old, not really intended
for use on live systems, and I haven't really sorted it out very well.
Basically, if you run exim with -N, it applies *only to that run*. So if
you submit a message and it happens not to get delivered immediately
(because of, say, a routing failure, or a "freeze" in a system filter),
it will sit on the queue and there is no memory of -N saved with it. So
a queue runner might some along and deliver it.
I guess messages submitted with -N should never be saved. I should take
a look at -N sometime and try to get a better spec for it.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
