On 6/1/06 9:48 AM, "John Hall" <j@???> wrote:
> 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?)
New tools are often forgotten. ;-(
For either solution, consider a queue whose oldest entries provide 50 lines
worth of deferred and presently not-deliverable message ids.
I think we don't get beyond that for some period of time (until messages do
deliver or time out).
With the exiqgrep solution, it might help to alternate exiqgrep -I and
exiqgrep -iR
A -x on the exiqgrep might also help for some queues.
--John (whose Exim queues don't develop such a situation)
