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Giraffeweb
AT present, I have 130,000 in the remote queue and about 1300 in the local. Needless to say, the local are taking their sweet time coming through and I have no idea what legit e-mails are stuck in the remote because when I try to view the remote queue using ./qmHandle -R using ssh, nothing ever starts to list. I have been monitoring the queues for the past few weeks this way and then deleting e-mails from the queue based on subject.

I tried to use qmail commands to start qmail and then the -a to send all the e-mails in the queue, but the response is that qmail was not started (although I started it prior and it was confirmed).

Right now I cannot find the offending script, form, etc. that is making all these e-mails keep piling up every few days in my mail queue.

Has anyone else been able to tackle this problem? I would like to install qmail-remove but I have no idea how to install a program on the server (linux using plesk). I just took over this server from someone else a few months ago so I am still learning the ropes.

What information does anyone need that could help me help you help me?

Thanks!
James Jhurani
If you do not have the experience to install something on a linux box, then you definitely do not want to start poking around in an MTA, especially qmail(not my favorite MTA)...

go with Professional Services...
ideasmultiples
need delete all content in queue.

If you are experience with ssh use this script to delete content:

CODE
/etc/init.d/qmail stop
cd /var/qmail/queue
rm -rf info intd local mess remote todo
mkdir mess
for i in `seq 0 22`; do
    mkdir mess/$i
done
cp -r mess info
cp -r mess intd
cp -r mess local
cp -r mess remote
cp -r mess todo

chmod -R 750 mess todo
chown -R qmailq:qmail mess todo

chmod -R 700 info intd local remote
chown -R qmailq:qmail intd
chown -R qmails:qmail info local remote

/etc/init.d/qmail start
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