Re: [exim] Controlling the number of deliveries

On 6/1/06, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:

> > We have a requirement to build a large queue of messages using the
> > queue_only option and then have them released in small batches by a
> > number of subsequent queue runners.
>

> exim -bp | sed '/^    /d;/^$/d;s/^.\{10\}\(.\{17\}\).*/\1/' | head -50 | xargs exim -M

Surely

    exiqgrep -i | head -50 | xargs exim -M

is slightly nicer (or am I missing something?)

Cheers,
John