Re: [exim] Backing up or Transferring the Mail Queue

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, John Jetmore wrote:

> There's a very small
> chance of filename collision but it's really, really small.

Use of "localhost_number" can help here (but only if you set it in
advance). Useful if you have a farm of functionally similar servers, give
each its own localhost_number and it will be used in the message id (and
hence in the queue filenames) making them unique per-server. You can then
safely move a queue from one machine to the next (perhaps to take it out
of service).

Limited to 16 values though.

J.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK