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Subject: Re: [exim] discovering when exim has finished processing a message
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:09:57PM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
>
> Suppose I know the queue ID of a message which I've
> submitted to exim for delivery to one or more remote
> addresses. Is there any way to learn programmatically when
> processing of that message is complete, and what the
> results were (i.e. which addresses were successfully
> delivered and which not)? For my purposes I only need to
> deal with messages with exactly one recipient.
>
> I can see the following possibilities, none attractive:
> (a) parse the logs; (b) wait for the queue file to
> disappear (which wouldn't tell me whether it was
> successfully handled or not); (c) patch exim. Have I
> missed something? I see that for a local transport I could
> use a shadow transport to achieve what I want, but not for
> a remote transport....
>


I usually use exigrep on the log file(s).

Steven.
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