Hello:
I have a similar problem - I am running Plesk with Qmail, and i have approx
5,500 messages in the queue. they are stuck!! it seems that its all
spam....the processes are:
qmailr 2705 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:17 0:00 qmail-remote
beer.com
gnflkgfkl@telekbird.com.cn
qmailr 3032 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:21 0:00 qmail-remote
beer.com
nnjfklk@catolico.net shado
qmailr 3062 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:21 0:00 qmail-remote
mail.dotcom.fr
dkbjk@mail.dotcom.f
qmailr 3141 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:22 0:00 qmail-remote
beer.com
dkbfskjf@kahkaha.com cynth
qmailr 3386 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:27 0:00 qmail-remote
beer.com
dbfkj@mailasia.com d_sing@
qmailr 3406 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:28 0:00 qmail-remote
beer.com
kjsdfk@vol.vnn.vn bnewman_
qmailr 3457 0.0 0.0 1248 464 ? S 22:30 0:00 qmail-remote
beer.com
jgkjfb@163.net bnewton2@be
I did a find * -name qmailctl and can't find it on the
server................
can anyone suggest how i can get these messages going again? incoming mail
is fine.
Thank you!!!
"Dave Sill" <MaxFreedom@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov> wrote in message
news:wx0n0g4agmn.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov...
> "Robert Leonard III" <the.bobkat@verizon.net> writes:
>
> > I have a qmailqueue that states that I have 97 messages in it.. this
number
> > occasionally adds another but never seems to decrease. I believe these
to
> > be undeliverable emails as normal mail operations appear to be working..
I
> > see this when I do a qmailctl stat command..
>
> "qmailctl queue" will show you more information about these messages.
>
> > is there any way to flush this queue or just plain delete it?
>
> "qmailctl flush" will cause qmail to schedule all messages for an
> immediate delivery attempt. If they're undeliverable, that won't
> help. You can wait until queuelifetime has passed and the messages
> will bounce automatically. If you really can't wait, you can stop
> qmail, remove the messages from the queue (perhaps using qmhandle from
> qmail.org), then restart qmail.
>
> --
> Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
> Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
> <http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.