On 5/25/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Pat Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060525 17:31]: > > When the migration is finished (about 8 hours) the plan is to set the > > forwarding ip address to the new mailserver. This should then allow the > > all the emails to be delivered. > > Make sure you don't send DSNs back during the 8 hours, as the default > time is usually 4 hours for the warning. You might also consider to catch > the mails by a special rule in exim.conf that freezes them, and then > thawn them after you are done. (And making the freeze-rule depending on > the existance of a special file, which can just be deleted to allow the > mails through then.)
Even easier is just to put 'freeze' in the system filter: # Exim filter freeze and then once everything else is up, remove it and unfreeze everything. You could even unfreeze e-mails a little at a time: $ exiqgrep -zi | head -n 100 | xargs exim -M would unfreeze and deliver 100 e-mails at a time. Cheers, John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
