qmail on e-smith

Ladies and gentlemen

Since yesterday my e-smith server doesn't seem to work anymore.

Since it is a rather old machine the harddisk sometimes get's quite full,
and so I decided to delete some mail-queues.

Now the mail isn't working anymore.
Fetchmail gets the batched mail from the proveder, but it isn't ditributed
anymore to the users.

When I do "ps -A |grep qmail" I see the following processes:

655? 00.00.00 qmail-send
657? 00.00.00 qmail-lspawn
658? 00.00.00 qmail-rspawn
659? 00.03.33 qmail-clean
3199?00.00.00 qmail-clean

Shouldn't there be a qmaild?
And what do the quesstion marks mean?

Thanks a lot

Hans Libbers

DH> and so I decided to delete some mail-queues.
DH> Now the mail isn't working anymore.

It's not safe to delete files from the mail queue whilst "qmail" is running.
The documentation tells you this. Always read the documentation.

<URL:http://qmail.org./top.html#usersoft>

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:


> It's not safe to delete files from the mail queue whilst "qmail" is
> running.
> The documentation tells you this. Always read the documentation.
>
> <URL:http://qmail.org./top.html#usersoft>

OK, thanks, but what should I do now.

Would a reinstall of qmail be a possibility?

Hans Libbers

JdeBP> It's not safe to delete files from the mail queue whilst
JdeBP> "qmail" is running. The documentation tells you this.
JdeBP> Always read the documentation.
JdeBP>
JdeBP> <URL:http://qmail.org./top.html#usersoft>

DH> OK, thanks, but what should I do now.

You should start by reading the web page whose URL I gave. That's why I gave
it.

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:


> You should start by reading the web page whose URL I gave. That's why I
> gave it.

Thanks a lot, but it doesn't look very much like a simple documentation,
more like a quite complicated homepage with lots of tips etcetera.

I read the howto, but now I only have a simple question.

If you don't want to answer it, that's allright with me, then I'll have to
find it out myself, wich is probably the best way.
And if you don't know the answer to this problem, just say so, that's also
allright.

Greetings

Hans Libbers

Drs Hll <vroinak2@xs4all.nl> writes:

>> <URL:http://qmail.org./top.html#usersoft>
>
> OK, thanks, but what should I do now.

Try downloading and running queue_repair or queue-fix.

--
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.

JdeBP> You should start by reading the web page whose URL
JdeBP> I gave. That's why I gave it.

DH> Thanks a lot, but it doesn't look very much like a simple
DH> documentation, more like a quite complicated homepage with
DH> lots of tips etcetera.

Nonetheless, it contains the information that you need. The URL that I gave
even gave you the right section of the page to look at.

DH> I read the howto, but now I only have a simple question.
DH> If you don't want to answer it, that's allright with me,
DH> then I'll have to find it out myself, wich is probably
DH> the best way. And if you don't know the answer to this
DH> problem, just say so, that's also allright.

You haven't asked a question in that message. I'm not sure how you expect me
or anyone else to respond to a question that you haven't actually asked.

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:


> You haven't asked a question in that message. I'm not sure how you expect
> me or anyone else to respond to a question that you haven't actually
> asked.

OK.
How do I get qmail running again, obviously....

I've tried everything Icould, like even reinstalling qmail, Nothing works.
Sopping the qmail service gives a failure, starting it an ok.

so........

Greetings

Hans Libbers