Re: [exim] problem with mails in queue while config changes …

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Lähettäjä: Jeremy Harris
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Aihe: Re: [exim] problem with mails in queue while config changes routers
On 29/12/2021 09:45, Cyborg via Exim-users wrote:
> It was about changing environments while in queue.


There's two parts to this.

1) (The bit Evgeny spoke to):
    Once a message is frozen, that frozen state is on the message
    in the spool.  The configuration is not relevant.


2) The Exim configuration file is not reloaded automatically by
    the exim daemon if it changes.  It is documented that SIGHUP
    should be used (the traditional Unix method) to tell it to do
    so.


    Child processes of the daemon (message acceptance, transport,
    queue-runner processes) get the config loaded by the daemon.


    Individually started exim processes, eg. for command-line mail
    submission, will get the then-current state of the config file.


    "Configuration" here is not only the config file itself but also
    any files pulled in via .include directives.  It does *not* cover
    the content of external files or databases used via lookups in
    the configuration, nor results from external processes.


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Cheers,
Jeremy