Slightly obscure question, and I don't see an answer in documentation: can queues from two exim instances be merged?
Background: I've got a set of machines running exim, with identical configs, and would like to take some of the older boxes out for recycling. Simply stopping any new mail from reaching the deprecated servers means that it'll still take several days for the existing queues to drain. Would it be possible to shut down exim, back up the queue (input/* and msglog/*), take it to one of the other servers, and restore it in together with whatever mail is already queued on that box? I can definitely see checking that there aren't any precisely-identical filenames that would get stomped, and probably want to temporarily shut down exim on the target host while doing the restore, but I'm wondering if that exim instance will find the new-to-it mail on startup or if something has to happen in its db/* databases? -- Anthony de Boer -- ## 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/
