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How do I rebuild qmail queue if it is damaged or consists of a lot of spam messages?

Article ID: 252 
Last Review: Mar,5 2009
Author: Vitaly Malakhov
Last updated by: Vitaly Malakhov APPLIES TO:
  • Plesk 8.x for Linux/Unix
  • Plesk 7.5.x Reloaded

Resolution

This instruction is written for RPM-based systems (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc...).

Please perform the following steps to recreate Qmail`s queue.

Attention!

All current messages will be removed from the queue in this case and cannot be restored.

1. Stop Qmail and xinetd.

/etc/init.d/qmail stop
/etc/init.d/xinetd stop


2. Move current queue to another location.

mv /var/qmail/queue /var/qmail/queue_old

3 Reinstall 'psa-qmail' RPM to recreate qmail queue structure with the command like:

rpm -Uvh --force psa-qmail....

4.(Optional).Reinstall drweb-qmail RPM if you use DrWeb antivirus feature which comes with Plesk.

rpm -Uvh --force drweb-qmail....

5.Start Qmail and xinetd:

/etc/init.d/qmail start
/etc/init.d/xinetd start

Note: you should get the both psa-qmail and drweb-qmail RPMs from the same Plesk version distributive which is installed on the server.
You can obtain current psa-qmail, drweb-qmail RPMs and Plesk build versions by running the following commands on Linux systems:


rpm -q psa-qmail
rpm -q drweb-qmail
rpm -q psa




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