Re: [Exim] freezing a set on mails

-- On Thursday, June 24, 2004 09:22:19 -0700 Jeff Lasman wrote:

> On Thursday 24 June 2004 01:27 am, Michael Fischer v. Mollard wrote:
>
>> When I'm in panic mode I do something like
>>
>> for i in `grep -l ^badaddress *-H`; do mv ${i/-H/-D} SOMEOTHERDIR; mv
>> $i SOMEOTHERDIR ; done
>>
>> in the queue directory, which is rude, but working. Not actually
>> freezing, but you may move them to the spool again later.
>
> So you can do this with exim, eh?
>
> I tried it once under qmail and broke everything.
>
> So I'm always a bit cautious.

I did this several times and nothing broke, but Philip Hazels tip provides
a much better way:

exipick -r aaiworldmarket.com -i| xargs exim -Mf

exipick is a really nice tool, thanks to the author

Michael