Edouard Boucher wrote: > hi,
>
> i have an exim runing wating for incomming connection.
> if i kill it to reload it, i suppose i might loose some important mail.
>
> but sometimes (at rare occasion), i need to update some conf,
> so you would say : kill -HUP exim_pid so exim never stop runing.
> but how about if I have to update macro def, instead of the conf file
> itself, i.e: change the value of MACRO_NAME that i have set with exim -DMACRO_NAME
>
> thank you for your help
>
You will not loose mail when your exim-server is down for some seconds,
if another server tries to send a mail in this moment it should defer
the mail and try to resend it later.
