On 24 September 2002, Edouard Boucher said:
> i have an exim runing wating for incomming connection.
> if i kill it to reload it, i suppose i might loose some important mail.
No, you won't lose mail. If you kill all Exim processes, then any
currently-running SMTP sessions will be terminated, and the message
being processed will have to sit in someone's queue (either yours or the
other guy's, depending on the direction of the SMTP session) until a
suitable time has elapsed. And it's pretty rare that you have to kill
all Exim processes.
Greg
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