RE: [Sheflug] Re: Software (and exim)

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> Anyway, exim... Apart from the last problem (relaying out to smtp, if it
> didn't get through), I would like to hold delivery if I am not
> connected. At the moment, it just reports an error and says 'cannot
> deliver to <address> now, please try again later'. How do I tell it to
> wait?
>
> Sorry if this is all easy stuff, but with so many people who know what
> there doing around, it seems silly to go it alone ;-)


You know, I think you'll find 'man exim' is quicker than 'cat
/dev/sheflug' ;)

The answer is, don't run it in daemon mode. Run it offline, queue the
mail, and exim -qf to empty the queue. You can put that in pon/poff,
ifup/ifdown, etc., to dequeue your mail automatically. 

Cheers,

Alex.
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