Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C690 User Guide
Chapter 6 Managing and Monitoring via the CLI
Managing the Email Queue
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Redirecting Messages in Queue
The
redirectrecipients
commands allow you to redirect all messages in the
email delivery queue to another relay host. Please note that redirecting recipients
to a host or IP address that is not prepared to accept large volumes of SMTP mail
from this host will cause messages to bounce and possibly result in the loss of
mail.
to a host or IP address that is not prepared to accept large volumes of SMTP mail
from this host will cause messages to bounce and possibly result in the loss of
mail.
Warning
Redirecting messages to a receiving domain that has /dev/null as its
destination results in the loss of messages. The CLI does not display a warning
if you redirect mail to such a domain. Check the SMTP route for the receiving
domain before redirecting messages.
destination results in the loss of messages. The CLI does not display a warning
if you redirect mail to such a domain. Check the SMTP route for the receiving
domain before redirecting messages.
Example
The following example redirects all mail to the example2.com host.
Bouncing messages, please wait.
1000 messages bounced.
mail3.example.com> redirectrecipients
Please enter the hostname or IP address of the machine you want to
send all mail to.
[]> example2.com
WARNING: redirecting recipients to a host or IP address that is not
prepared to accept large volumes of SMTP mail from this host will
cause messages to bounce and possibly result in the loss of mail.
Are you sure you want to redirect all mail in the queue to
"example2.com"? [N]> y