hmmm ... noone working on Sat nite =)

a question abt what i thought was going to be a simple task -- varying smtp delay by time of day.

on a CGPro system, i run a cron job at various times of day to use its CLI to change smmtp delay and # of available SMTP connections.

in exim, i'd like to make similar changes ...

the target, of course is:

   acl_check_connect:
       require  hosts   = *
       delay            = XXs

the best i can figure so far, one conceivable option is to assign delay to a MACRO,

     delay = MY_DELAYs

and with a cron job, kill then relaunch EXIM with a "-DMY_DELAY=XXs" ( i don't _think_ you can pass exim a -D param with just a sigHUP ...)

this seems a bit brute force/inelegant ...

another approach would be to reach OUT -- i.e., use a series of conditionals in the 'delay =' stanza that use ${run<command> expansion to reach out to the shell's date/time function ... but, again, 'kludgy'.

is there another/better approach for this?

thx!

richard

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