[exim] tip: use -odf when calling exim from a systemd onesho…

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Author: Ian Kelling
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To: Exim-users
Subject: [exim] tip: use -odf when calling exim from a systemd oneshot service
If calling exim is the last thing the service does, systemd will kill
off exim's background delivery process and the message will be in the
queue waiting until the next queue run. This has bit me when migrating a
script from a cronjob to a systemd timer.

If you run in exim debug mode, the last lines you see might be something like:

finding IP address for example.com
calling host_find_byname

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