Re: [exim] Moving a queue to another server

[Jeremy Harris via Exim-users]

On 12 July 2018 12:03:03 CEST, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users 
<exim-users@exim.org> wrote:
>Christian K via Exim-users <exim-users@exim.org> (Do 12 Jul 2018
>11:26:27 CEST):
>> I am wondering if there is a good way to move all pending mails from
>> one exim server to another.
>> It is probably not the best idea to move the files from one spool
>> directory to another (idea 1).
>
>
>Why not? If you stop the Exim instance on the source host, you can just
>transfer the files to the destination.

Be careful to only do this to an equal or later Exim version.

>If the retry-times are important (they're not stored in the spool
>*files*, but in separate files under the spool directory), just
>transfer
>the content of the complete spool

Ditto, with respect to library versions also,
and more risky over library updates

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