On 3/7/2012 3:09 AM, Warren Baker wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Jeffrey Starin
> <jeffrey.starin@??? <mailto:jeffrey.starin@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 3/6/2012 12:26 PM, Warren Baker wrote:
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>
> With a bit of external help you could get Exim to do the same
> thing. Have a log file monitor that 'watches' (tails) the log
> file for a specific pattern and when it encounters a pattern,
> have it execute Exim with an alternate configuration file for
> the relevant message(s).
>
> thank you Warren. Do you think simply "kill -HUP `cat
> /var/spool/exim/exim-daemon.pid`" then restarting exim with
> reference to a separate config file would suffice?
>
> What happens to the messages already in the queues and what kind
> of hiccup could we expect?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> You can run a separate instance of Exim with an alternate config file
> which could be configured to only handle the delayed Yahoo messages.
> This way, the separate instance wouldn't touch the other mails in the
> queue and you don't need to HUP anything.
>
> There are a number of ways you could do this, for example have the
> external helper freeze the message and then have the other instance
> unthaw and then attempt to deliver it or based upon some file existing
> (the is created by the external helper) have the secondary exim
> instance deliver the message. The primary exim instance wouldn't touch
> the messages destined for yahoo, until the file was removed.
>
> There are a number of ways to do this but just about anything possible.
>
>
> --
> .warren
A little insight as to what is an external helper? Thanks.
