How do I delete qmail (huge) queue

[manos]

As I've posted in one of my earlier post I have huge amount of messages in queue. Can anybody please describe for me a safe way to delete the all using ssh? (fedora 2 Plesk 7.5.4);

Thank you

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Download and install qmHandle, once it's unpacked, read the README file for instructions, minor modifications to it's file may be needed, there is at least one other post within the last 1.5 months regarding this. Many posts about qmHandle in general.

Very handy commandline utility...

 

[manos]

Isn't this allready installed in Plesk? If not what directory should i put qmhande in? (fedora 2 plesk 7.5.4)

You are doing a great job jamesyeeoc

 

[sieb@]

Just drop it in /var/qmail/bin and run it from the command line. It's not part of PSA, though it should be.

 

[manos]

I have allready put it in /usr/bin/
what settings should I use to automatically start/stop qmail (inside qmHandle)?

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Do this as a test: From a SSH login give the command:

pidof qmail-send

If it returns a pid number, then you should be able to use qmHandle as is.

Further test: do a "qmHandle -a" and see if it returns any errors. Post them here if there are any.

If you do get errors, you may have to replace the my ($pidcmd) line with something like:

my ($pidcmd) = "ps -e |grep 'qmail-send' |cut -d ' ' -f 1";

See the post where I helped Swakoo with this at:
http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?postid=115975#post115975

 

[manos]

pidof qmail-send returns 30655
qmHandle -a returns nothing
I did a qmhandle -s that showed 1.325.456 messages in local queue. what do i do?

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Ok, let's stay in this thread...

If you want to just delete ALL messages still in the queue, then use the -D option. THIS WILL DELETE ALL LOCAL AND REMOTE QUEUE MESSAGES

You are aware that LOCAL are messages going to your server's mail accounts. Remote are outbound messages going to other external domains, right?

 

[manos]

First of all THANK YOU..
Ye s I am aware of local and remote queues.
I did the qmHandle -D but all output goes to screen. Is there a way to avoid this in order to speed things up?

 

[jamesyeeoc]

I've never had to delete a queue that large, but I suppose you could try sending the output to /dev/null

qmHandle -D >>/dev/null

With over a million messages, it will still take some time regardless of the screen output or not....

 

[manos]

Well I did so next step is to find out why so many mails from drweb-deamon.....

 

[jamesyeeoc]

I seem to remember another thread about just that problem within the last week or so.

DrWeb causing tons of emails....

I didn't read the entire thread since I personally think DrWeb is a piece of s**t and don't use it.

 

[manos]

Any easy to Install alternatives?
Hope I'm not a pain in the **s

OK I can't thank you enough.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

No, you are not a pain in the a** (or anywhere else for that matter).

Free AV alternatives, there are so many.

Easy to install - that is a trick question. Level of easy depends on the admin's experience/knowledge level....

Sorry, too tired to think.

Try searching for clamav or amavis

Check 'superbock' post in this thread:
http://forum.plesk.com/showthread.php?threadid=25663&highlight=clamav
(basically try using ART's repository for clamav and qmail-scanner. ART = AtomicRocketTurtle.com (former Plesk owner/programmer, his stuff is Plesk friendly) It's better (in some cases) to use ART's instead of downloading from the original package author and having to tweak it to work with Plesk. ART has already done the tweaking!

Sun's about to come up, time for me to sleep....

 

[manos]

Alas .... my problems continue.

I deleted the hude queue (1.250.000 mails).

I stopped DrWeb Antivirus service and removed it from all the email accountt but....

As soon as i start SMTP qmail hell brakes loose again...

Here is what I see in local queue (sample):
Date: 19 Sep 2005 18:40:09 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

8044874 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 19 Sep 2005 17:39:43 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

11668386 (3, L)
Return-path:
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: failure notice
Date: 21 Sep 2005 05:23:53 +0300
Size: 2124 bytes

6251403 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 19 Sep 2005 05:38:08 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

6370888 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 19 Sep 2005 07:01:41 +0300
Size: 1585 bytes

3156040 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 17 Sep 2005 12:37:41 +0300
Size: 1590 bytes

4168500 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 18 Sep 2005 13:04:45 +0300
Size: 1585 bytes

3119102 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 17 Sep 2005 10:22:30 +0300
Size: 1591 bytes

3949678 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 18 Sep 2005 09:06:07 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

5118515 (3, L)
Return-path:
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: failure notice
Date: 21 Sep 2005 06:53:28 +0300
Size: 2122 bytes

14184287 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 17 Sep 2005 07:48:40 +0300
Size: 1588 bytes

6352120 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 19 Sep 2005 06:54:36 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

5764654 (3, L)
Return-path:
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: failure notice
Date: 21 Sep 2005 15:35:23 +0300
Size: 2124 bytes

7299099 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 19 Sep 2005 12:59:40 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

4265077 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 18 Sep 2005 14:38:28 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

7173979 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 19 Sep 2005 12:21:42 +0300
Size: 1585 bytes

8595655 (3, L)
Return-path:
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: failure notice
Date: 21 Sep 2005 03:28:58 +0300
Size: 2123 bytes

4283822 (3, L)
Return-path: [email protected]
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Date: 18 Sep 2005 14:53:48 +0300
Size: 1589 bytes

Messages in local queue: 495

Whats VERY STRANGE is that even though I deleted the huge queue and the server's clock is OK, I see messages 5 days old.

Also I see a large part of the hard disk occupied even after I delete the huge bulk of the messages.

ARE THERE ANY MORE EMAIL QUEUES IN PLESK??

PLEASE help me...

 

[JamesB]

Personal recommendations:
1. get rid of drweb and all of its dependancies

rpm -e drweb drweb-qmail

2. stop xinetd and qmail:

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

3. move the b0rked qmail queue (you will lose all of your current mail)

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

3. Reinstall the psa-qmail rpm using --force. also reinstall everything in the opt/mail directory. Do not reinstall the **** in opt/drweb.

Feel free to nuke the qmail_old directory...

Good luck.

 

[manos]

Can anyone tell me the exact commands to retrive and reinstall psa-qmail OK I found it!!! but now qmail doesn't work. I try to send an email from another server to the server in question but it doesn't get in qmail queue..... How do i test if qmail is working properly??

OK FINALLY I ' GOT IT FIXED AFTER I REINSTALLED EVERYTHING AGAIN (QMAIL AND DEPENDENCIES)

THANK YOU ALL FOR CONTRIBUTING...

 

[non-guru]

reinstalling qmail worked for me also. Stopping qmail, moving the old queue and then re-installing.

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat showed over 34000 messages
qmHandle showed only 3 remote and 1 local

The ./qmHandle -D only deleted 3 of the messages.

This was a seldom used server, but I had noticed there was a problem when http was hanging up every once in a while and the qmHandle didn't seem to show the problem... but tailing /var/log/maillog I found thoussands of the below entries every few minutes.

Nov 6 03:00:48 secondaryserver qmail: 1131264048.718582 warning: trouble injecting bounce message, will try later

The lag in httpd response took place when all the messages 'tried later'

Thanks for your post!

 

[bellablue]

DRWEB IS SPAMMING ME WITH FAILURES?

Received: (qmail 11766 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400
Date: 3 Oct 2007 16:40:19 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: "DrWeb-DAEMON" <[email protected]>
To: "System Administrator" <[email protected]>
Subject: The antivirus software failure
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="001-DrWeb-MailFilter-Notification"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Precedence: junk
X-Antivirus-Ticket: DrWeb notification.



I put xxxxxx in there,


why is this happening it sends me so many warnings that my relays are blocked and I can't send email after 1000 go out.

 

[adamluz]

Is this average?
Messages in local queue: 502
Messages in remote queue: 2161

It takes a little over 30 minutes for e-mails to be delivered to local boxes... any way I can speed this up?