Fred Viles wrote:
> On 22 May 2005 at 16:21, Craig Jackson wrote about
> "Re: [exim] Using IMAP folders as qu":
>
> |...
> | check the mail because I retained Maildir_format. Now, what if I started
> | a second Exim process for only sending out mail through a manual route
> | and made its queue one of the IMAP folders, e.g.
> | /path/to/Maildir/.queue/cur. If I dragged and dropped the batched emails
> | _one at a time_ into that folder, would the second Exim process pick up
> | the email and send it on without a hitch?
>
> No. Exim's queue (aka spool) does not (and could not) use maildir
> format. I guess you could write your own daemon to check for
> messages in that folder and write them to exim's spool in the
> appropriate format. See Chapter 52, "Format of spool files", if you
> want to try that.
Well, because I'm a not too smart guy, this is the best I can come up
with: email that needs to be released can be copied using IMAP MUA into
a Release folder. This rough draft cron script runs every minute:
#!/bin/bash
QUEUEDIR=/var/spool/exim/vmail/postmaster/Maildir/cur
for EMAIL in `ls $QUEUEDIR`
do
RECIPIENTS=""
RCPT_LIST=`egrep "^RCPT TO:" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL | egrep -o \
"[^<]+@[^>]+"`
for RECIPIENT in $RCPT_LIST
do
RECIPIENTS="$RECIPIENTS,$RECIPIENT"
done
RECIPIENTS=`echo $RECIPIENTS | sed "s/^,//"`
SENDER=`egrep "^MAIL FROM:" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL | egrep -o \
"[^<]+@[^>]+"`
egrep -v "(^MAIL FROM:|^RCPT TO:|^DATA)" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL > \
email.tmp
/usr/local/exim/bin/exim -f $SENDER -oi -oem -bm $RECIPIENTS < \
email.tmp
done
I appreciate your suggestions to this point. Please let me know if you
think this is practical and reliable.
Thanks,
Craig Jackson
