On 2008-07-24 at 23:35 +0200, Sébastien CARRE wrote: > I'm just writting a new script to check the status of the Exim queue > status on our server. > > In order to test it, I want to be able to hold some emails in the queue > (from a specific adresse for example). Is this possible ?
First, temporarily disable the queue-runners (restart Exim without -qXXX or disable the crontab) or face a race-condition as the queue-runners try to deliver held mail. For my testing, on a box with queue-runners every 30 minutes, I choose to just deal with the race-condition. :) Submit the test emails with -odq on the command-line for exim (or the sendmail alias). That disables immediate delivery and leaves the mail for queue-runners to deal with. You can make a mail that's on the queue be ignored by queue-runners by freezing it. This has the added bonus of testing that your script handles frozen messages (typically things like non-delivery reports to undeliverable addresses, which typically means you accepted mail that you shouldn't have). "exim -Mf msgid" where msgid is the Exim message-id shown in the exim -bpru/-bp/whatever output. -Mt to thaw. Exim's command-line flags have a bunch of other useful capabilities for queue management and controlling message submission. The Exim Specification (spec.txt, www.exim.org, etc) or the man-page which is generated from the relevant sections of the Spec. -Phil -- ## 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/
