{"id":133,"date":"2009-12-05T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparksupport.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2024-07-01T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:10:40","slug":"qmail-flush-stuck-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparksupport.com\/blog\/qmail-flush-stuck-queue\/","title":{"rendered":"Qmail flush stuck queue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qmail is a wonderful MTA in all sense but its quite easy to have the troubles like your queue getting filled up and you don&#8217;t know how to flush the queue. I&#8217;ll give you some insights how to do that<\/p>\n<p>If you have already downloaded qmHandle you can remove the mails by issuing the command<\/p>\n<pre><code>qmHandle -S'failure notice'<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Here we have deleted all the mails with the subject &#8220;failure notice&#8221; change it as per your needs, but I don&#8217;t think qmHandle can work on a busy system and when the queue is quite large. By default qmHandle has to stop qmail first so make sure that qmailctl is correctly mentioned in the qmHandle script just another tip \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Our installation of qmail was based on qmailrocks and here is the method we followed<\/p>\n<p>You cannot simply stop qmail by issuing qmailctl stop<\/p>\n<p>you need to stop by the command<\/p>\n<pre><code>svc -d \/service\/*\nsvc -d \/service\/*\/log<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>then kill all&nbsp; process<\/p>\n<pre><code>pgrep |xargs kill -9<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>now go to queue directory<\/p>\n<pre><code>cd \/var\/qmail\/queue\/<\/code> <code>find mess -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;\nfind info -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;\nfind remote -type f -exec rm -rf {} ;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Now enable service<\/p>\n<pre><code>svc -u \/service\/*\nsvc -u \/service\/*\/log<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>now tail the log files<\/p>\n<pre><code> tail -f \/var\/log\/qmail\/qmail-smtpd\/current also tail -f \/var\/log\/qmail\/qmail-send\/current and see how it goes.<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qmail is a wonderful MTA in all sense but its quite easy to have the troubles like your queue getting filled up and you don&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-mta","tag-qmail-flush-stuck-queue"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Qmail flush stuck queue - we helps you to master the steps easily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you looking for Qmail flush stuck queue problems? 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