[plug] Mail backlog

[Ryan]

I don't know exactly without reading up, but the exim site has an
FAQ the size of a really large FAQ :)

Setting up an alias that will  match whatever user these emails
are addressed to and putting the domains you need it to accept
in the local_domains setting should allow the old/new exim machines
to take them all.

If the problem is getting the old server to send them along - set
the smarthost of the old server to the new server also.

Or I am I missing the complexity of this issue? it's still early for me :)

Ryan

At 11:42 AM 5/20/01 +0800, you wrote:
>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".