[plug] Mail backlog

[Brian Tombleson]

Umm .. If I understand correctly, you can pass all mail to the sendmail
server already, but that server is trying to deliver it again somewhere
else.  Correct?

If so, first of all, I'd strongly recommend upgrading that sendmail to
8.10.x before you start, and then configure that sendmail to re-direct all
of that mail you will be getting (any/all addresses it is addressed to) to a
single mailbox that you can then POP.

For the sendmail config, look at the 'virtusertable' documentation.  I can't
recommend anything concerning Exim as I'm not familiar with the package at
all.

Hope this helps.

- Brian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Blackham" <bernard at blackham.com.au>
To: "Perth Linux Users Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: [plug] Mail backlog


> List,
>
> I recently realised that when I switched my mail from going to my own
> machine to going directly onto the server, that I forgot to change my
> fetchmail to send it to the server too. It's taken me a while to realise
> (about 6 months) and I now have about 1300 messages in
> /var/spool/exim/input/ which are 'frozen'.
>
> I changed the exim configuration to deliver to the new server and then
> unfroze the queue... I was hoping all the messages would just be passed to
> the server. Only problem being is that the messages themselves are
> actually addressed to a different address at a different domain, so the
> server attempts to send them there.
>
> Basically how do I configure Exim to pass ALL the mail in it's queue to
> one mailbox? Else I figure I might simply write a script to go through
> each message in the spool, chop off Exim's headers and dump it into my
> mail spool. Good/bad?
>
> I'm running Exim 3.12 (where all the frozen mail is), and my actual new
> mail server is running "Sendmail 8.9.3/8.8.7".
>
> Any ideas welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard.
>
> --
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au
>
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