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Qmail Mail Queue Management

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To manage the Qmail mail queues, you can use a tool called qmHandle.

Here we'll install a package for the SME Server that also includes a Server-Manager panel. Even without the Server-Manager panel, qmHandle is quick and easy to use from the command line.

Reference

There is a complete document in th SME wiki now:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Qmhandle_mail_queue_manager

Install qmHandle

wget -O smeserver-saco-qmHandle.rpm "http://www.saco-support.de/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=downloadfile&downloaditemid=13"
yum localinstall -y smeserver-saco-qmHandle.rpm

Using qmHandle

Use the new Server-Manager panel or the command line:

qmHandle

qmHandle v1.3.2
Copyright 1998-2003 Michele Beltrame

Available parameters:
  -a       : try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running)
  -l       : list message queues
  -L       : list local message queue
  -R       : list remote message queue
  -s       : show some statistics
  -mN      : display message number N
  -dN      : delete message number N
  -fsender : delete message from sender
  -f're'   : delete message from senders matching regular expression re
  -Stext   : delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject
  -h're'   : delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case insensitive)
  -b're'   : delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case insensitive)
  -H're'   : delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case sensitive)
  -B're'   : delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case sensitive)
  -t're'   : flag messages with recipients in regular expression 're' for earlier retry (note: this lengthens the time message can stay in queue)
  -D       : delete all messages in the queue (local and remote)
  -V       : print program version

Additional (optional) parameters:
  -c       : display colored output
  -N       : list message numbers only
           (to be used either with -l, -L or -R)

You can view/delete multiple message i.e. -d123 -v456 -d567
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 March 2009 09:10  

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