Re: [Exim] Downtime: Incoming Message Retrieval Question

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Karl Balsmeier
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Downtime: Incoming Message Retrieval Question
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Karl Balsmeier wrote:

> After getting the mail transport operational, i've done quite a bit of
> reading (man page & faqs) on ways to resurrect any "lost" INCOMING items
> during downtime, i've done a ./exim -bp and run some -M on a few messages.


I don't understand this question. If your host is down, it can't receive
incoming messages. They should normally remain on the sending hosts
until you come up again.

I suspect I am mis-understanding you in some way.

> The queue displayed doesn't seem to cover what I know to be a much higher
> volume of expected incoming mail though. Is there a spool of "lost"
> incoming messages in an Exim directory that can be "unzipped" and "let fly"
> in much the same way "thawed" applies to the queue?


No. Please explain what you mean by "lost" incoming messages.

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