Qmail/Postfix help Plesk 9.5.4 Centos 5.1

[CruzMark]

Okay, so I know this is a longshot, and I know this system is older, and we have a plan for migrating each user to Only, BUT....

my server crashed. I managed to restore it,but mail isn't working correctly for all users. I think it's because it is stuck in a state between postfix and qmail.

qmail and associated processes are running, but when I run the following, it shows Postfix:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng --features | grep SMTP_Server
$features['SMTP_Server'] = "Postfix";
$features['SMTP_Server_package'] = "postfix";

If I try the old trick of switching back and forth between Postfix and Qmail, all I get is a message that everything is up to date.

Problem is that *some* users can no longer log in via SMTP, and new user accounts don't seem to deliver mail.

Help, please?

 

[IgorG]

Have you tried

# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk --with-spam

?

 

[CruzMark]

I've done it using --without-spam, it added folks to the auth db, but isn't switching the SMTP server to qmail.

I'll try the with-spam, though the server is using the 4psa-spamassassin spamd, not the PSA one.

 

[IgorG]

but isn't switching the SMTP server to qmail.

This command should not do this. Use this KB article for switching to Qmail How to define which mail transfer agent (MTA) is used in Plesk and how to switch from QMail to Postfix and back

 

[CruzMark]

Ran it --with-spam, but still reporting SMTP is Postfix.

 

[CruzMark]

It is plesk 9, so I've been running:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component qmail

with following result:

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Determining the packages that need to be installed.
You already have the latest version of product(s) and all the selected components
installed. Installation will not continue.

 

[IgorG]

Try to remove postfix with something like

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --remove-component postfix

 

[CruzMark]

--remove-component wasn't an option in 9.5.4

 

[IgorG]

Consider Plesk upgrade in this case.

 

[CruzMark]

I can't do that. I need to move users to Onyx, bur I can't upgrade this to anything because Plesk changed the way accounts were setup. I'll need to migrate 150 client accounts.

Where does /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mailmng --features get it's information?

 

[IgorG]

Try to remove postfix packages directly with OS package manager.
Find them first with:

# rpm -qa | grep postfix

 

[CruzMark]

removing postfix and then re-running the autoinstaller may have fixed it. autoinstaller is still running and mail is working for users I know it wasn't working for prior. Thanks for your help.