Re: [Exim] Manually delivering message from -D and -H files

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Author: Dan Egli
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To: Ray Jackson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Manually delivering message from -D and -H files
Ray Jackson wrote:

| Hi all,

|
| Sorry - this is probably an obvious question but I'm an Exim newbie so
| here goes anyway...

|
| We had a bunch of messages in our queue which were killing our
| anti-virus software every
| time exim tried to deliver them to the remote AV server, so I tracked
| them down via the
| msglogs and moved the msglog files and the *-D and *-H files to a
| temporary folder. Now
| we have a patch for our AV server box and I'd like to now deliver these
| messages which I
| moved into /opt/tmp. How can I deliver the messages easily using Exim?
| Do I manually copy
| them back into the queue or can I run exim with some option to deliver
| the messages for me
| from /opt/tmp?

|
| Thanks,
| Ray

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You need to move/copy the messages back. Exim's queue directory is
defined at compile time. There *MAY* be a config option in the exim.conf
file for changing the queue dir, but I don't recall one. Best bet is to
move them back into the queue dir, then run exim -qff to force exim to
re-read the queue and start trying to deliver the messages.