Re: exim queue

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 19981109222014.A912@icon.co.za> you write:
>On Mon, Nov 09 1998, Leon Breedt spake thus:
>
>i just noticed something else.
>
>> i'm running exim on a dialup box, with some success.  i can get
>> local messages (via fetchmail) delivered fine.
>or maybe not so fine.  after running fetchmail, i see local messages
>aren't all delivered immediately, some of the fetchmail-forwarded messages
>are still lurking in the queue.  i have to do a runq to get them into
>my mailbox.

Put this in the main configuration section of /etc/exim.conf:

    queue_remote = true

This should cause it to only queue messages for remote systems; locally
delivered messages should then not be queued.


For your other question: you can check whether there is an outgoing
smtp connection:

    if netstat --ip -n | grep ':25   *ESTABLISHED' > /dev/null
    then        : smtp connection is active
    else        : no active smtp connection
    fi

or check if there is a sendmail process active:

    if pidof exim > /dev/null
    then        : exim is running
    else        : no exim process found
    fi

Hmmm, maybe the process is called sendmail and not exim. Experiment.


Paul Slootman
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