On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:29:51 -0500, Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John Burnham wrote: >> If you have both servers up and running at the same time, you could simply >> change the >> config on the old one to only have a manualroute router sending everything >> to the new >> server and do a forced queue run (exim -qff). > >This is what I'd recommend, too; that way you're sticking with known >interfaces, instead of messing around with the internal queues, and if >anything goes wrong, we'll be more likely to be able to help you out >with the logs.
Tony Finch's Paper about Cambridge's exim configuration, presented on the Exim conference in 2005, features a rather cute method of configuring exim to drain its queue to another system by simply creating a file inside the file system. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
