Fred Viles wrote:
On 22 May 2005 at 16:21, Craig Jackson wrote about
"Re: [exim] Using IMAP folders as qu":
|...
| check the mail because I retained Maildir_format. Now, what if I started
| a second Exim process for only sending out mail through a manual route
| and made its queue one of the IMAP folders, e.g.
| /path/to/Maildir/.queue/cur. If I dragged and dropped the batched emails
| _one at a time_ into that folder, would the second Exim process pick up
| the email and send it on without a hitch?
No. Exim's queue (aka spool) does not (and could not) use maildir
format. I guess you could write your own daemon to check for
messages in that folder and write them to exim's spool in the
appropriate format. See Chapter 52, "Format of spool files", if you
want to try that.
Well, because I'm a not too smart guy, this is the best I can come up
with: email that needs to be released can be copied using IMAP MUA into
a Release folder. This rough draft cron script runs every minute:
#!/bin/bash
QUEUEDIR=/var/spool/exim/vmail/postmaster/Maildir/cur
for EMAIL in `ls $QUEUEDIR`
do
RECIPIENTS=""
RCPT_LIST=`egrep "^RCPT TO:" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL | egrep -o \
"[^<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]+"`
for RECIPIENT in $RCPT_LIST
do
RECIPIENTS="$RECIPIENTS,$RECIPIENT"
done
RECIPIENTS=`echo $RECIPIENTS | sed "s/^,//"`
SENDER=`egrep "^MAIL FROM:" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL | egrep -o \
"[^<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]+"`
egrep -v "(^MAIL FROM:|^RCPT TO:|^DATA)" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL > \
email.tmp
/usr/local/exim/bin/exim -f $SENDER -oi -oem -bm $RECIPIENTS < \
email.tmp
done
I appreciate your suggestions to this point. Please let me know if you
think this is practical and reliable.
Thanks,
Craig Jackson
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