"Peter Pietrzkiewicz" <peter@webcanada.com> writes:

> I have a similar problem - I am running Plesk with Qmail, and i have approx
> 5,500 messages in the queue. they are stuck!!

What makes you think they're stuck?

> it seems that its all spam....

Incoming spam? Outgoing spam? Bounces from undeliverable incoming
spam? Are you an open relay?

>the processes are:

Processes aren't messages. Have you looked at the messages and the
qmail-send logs to try to figure out where they're coming from?

> I did a find * -name qmailctl and can't find it on the
> server................

qmailctl is a script I wrote and published in "Life with qmail" and
the _The qmail Handbook_. You can grab a copy from:

http://www.lifewithqmail.org/qmailctl-script-dt70

And either adapt it to your installation or just look at the commands
it executes for the various functions.

> can anyone suggest how i can get these messages going again?

Chances are good that they're not really stuck--they're just not
deliverable, either temporarily or permanently.

--
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.