On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> >> My question is how do I make it permanent rather than casual? Could I
> >> run exim -q15m -Rff yahoo.com?
> >
> > Hmm, I would have expected an error from exim in that case, so I can't
> > tell what exactly happens if you specify -q<time> and -R.
> >
> > I'd suggest to just run exim -Rff as a cronjob every hour or so,
> > depending on how much time a queue run takes. After all, this is not a
> > permanent situation, is it?
>
> This is an idea to use. To be honest with you I did try to start another
> queue run with -q15m -Rff and so far it works but should that create
> problem, your cron job idea is very good thank you!
Exim will be quite happy with the command
exim -q15m -Rff yahoo.com
It will start a daemon that starts a queue run with that -Rff option
every 15 minutes. That's all it will do. Of course, this is no different
from using cron to do the same thing.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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