Christian K via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (Do 12 Jul 2018 11:26:27 CEST):
> I am wondering if there is a good way to move all pending mails from
> one exim server to another.
> It is probably not the best idea to move the files from one spool
> directory to another (idea 1).
Why not? If you stop the Exim instance on the source host, you can just
transfer the files to the destination.
If the retry-times are important (they're not stored in the spool
*files*, but in separate files under the spool directory), just transfer
the content of the complete spool
rsync -a $(exim -n -bP spool_directory)/ REMOTE-HOST:REMOTE-SPOOL-DIR/
> exim -MC <transport> <hostname> <sequence number> <message id>
> Another idea (3) would be to use the "fallback_hosts" option for each
> transport and trigger an new delivery attempt for every mail in the
> queue.
> Idea 2 and 3 would reset the retry time and add another received
> header, this would (probably) not be a problem.
> I'd like to avoid canceling the delivery with -Mg.
For evaluation of the other ideas more information is necessary about
things like why, how-often, …
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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