On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 08:05, Sascha Carlin wrote:
> 1. exim is started by 'exim -bd'.
> 2. we do 'exim -q' and wait for exim flushing (i. e. sending and devliering all mails in the queue).
> 3. we power-off the system.
>
> Would this be alright or am I missing something?
you don't even need to start exim as a daemon.
exim -qff -v - and have a manualroute driver to handoff outbound mail to
a smarthost would be a great idea. Make things far faster.
srs