Re: [Exim] hold_domains = *

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Author: Ray Jackson
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To: exim-users, Philip Hazel
CC: Frank Elsner, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] hold_domains = *
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Thanks all - I will do all of the above! I am one of those paranoid types who
will do everything *just to be sure* that mail gets queued :)

Quoting Philip Hazel <ph10@???>:

> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Frank Elsner wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 06 May 2004 20:56:46 +1200 Ray Jackson wrote:
>> > Because we are an ISP and host mail for hundreds of domains! We
>> are doing the
>> > migration at 5am in the morning and it should be done by 6am...
>> >
>> > 'hold_domains = *' is the easiest thing to do :)
>>
>> ACK. Do it that way.
>
> Since you are going to restart the daemon anyway, you could also do
>
> queue_only = true
>
> and restart without the -q15m (or whatever time you use), so no queue
> runners are started. This is a bit more to do, but is more efficient,
> since it won't even start to deliver messages. With hold_domains, it
> starts the delivery, and checks every recipient to see if it is held or
> not.
>
> But what the heck, you probably won't be able to tell the difference.
>
> --
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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