On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Peter D. Gray wrote:

> Hmmmmmmmm.... would it be possible to simply rename the -H files
> to -F when a message is frozen. That way it would be fast
> to ignore frozen messages without the overhead of an open
> and read.

That is an interesting idea, which I have noted. However, it isn't all 
that simple because everything that scans queues, including eximon, exim 
-bp, etc, would have to be upgraded to understand it.

Even if that were done, though, there is a flaw in this plan. Remember
that *sometimes* when a frozen message is encountered, it *is* processed
as a result of auto_that, timeout_frozen_after, and
ignore_bounce_errors_after. Something other than a simple -F would be 
needed to encode the time of freezing. 


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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