If I am using dbm files for data that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time I make a change?
A5018: Exim re-reads the file every time it consults it, so if you are using a cdb or a DBM library that uses just a single file (i.e. not ndbm), you can just build the new file with a temporary file name, and use mv to rename it into the correct place on the fly. If there are two files to rename, there is a window of time during which the DBM database is inconsistent. On lightly loaded systems this may not matter. Q5019: I need an option that is the opposite of -bpa, that is, a listing of those addresses generated from a top-level address that have not yet been delivered. A5019: Exim does not keep this information. It saves only the top-level addresses and the list of addresses that are finished with. At each delivery attempt, generated addresses are recomputed from scratch. This makes it possible to correct errors in redirection data that is causing delivery delays. However, there is an option you can set on a redirect router that changes things. It is called one_time, and if it is s
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