Re: [exim] Delaying first delivery from queue

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Author: Dennis Davis
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Delaying first delivery from queue
On Tue, 27 May 2014, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> From: Jeremy Harris <jgh@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:06:45
> Subject: Re: [exim] Delaying first delivery from queue
>
> On 27/05/14 21:48, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > For example, say I run an exim daemon with -q30, and the runs
> > fall on 20 and 50 minutes after each hour. At 13:45 a message
> > is received which goes on the queue (submitted with -bdq,
> > queue_only applied, etc.). I would like the queue run at 13:50
> > to ignore this message, and the one at 14:20 to pick it up and
> > attempt to deliver it.
>
> There is an expansion condition "first_delivery" - does this help?


Also see (Chapter 11) the $message_age expansion variable. You
could possibly arrange things so delivery isn't attempted until the
message is old enough.
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Dennis Davis <dennisdavis@???>