Comments on: Delete Qmail Server messages Queue

By: ghibux

ghibux — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:38:33 +0000

hello
how can install qmail-remove without compile ?
In a server i haven’t possibility to install any Compiler

tnks

By: Kalpin

Kalpin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:07:33 +0000

Rohit,

what your logs say?

cek your /var/log/maillog or /var/log/qmail/*

By: rohit

rohit — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:28:02 +0000

i am not able to receive any email to my domain

By: Laurens Meurs

Laurens Meurs — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:53:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for the info, it really did help me out! I first installed qmail-remove, but qmHandle does it all (listing, removing, etc.) and in a very userfriendly way. I appreciate the good work!

By: oh4real

oh4real — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:26:42 +0000

THANK YOU!!! THANKS HEAPS!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!

I removed a directory and didn’t realize there was a cron job running on it. As soon as I deleted the directory, error messages (first a ‘cd’ then a ‘php cron.php’) started piling up in my queue. Running * * * * * emails piled up each day - quickly surpassing the GoDaddy limit and loading up the queues.

GoDaddy doesn’t load qmail-remove on their servers, now I know!!

Thanks again!
oh4real

By: Prasenjit Karmakar

Prasenjit Karmakar — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:03:22 +0000

3000 mails are in queue.And it deliver the mail very slow. We can’t delet the mail queue. How the way we will solve it.

Regards
Prasenjit

By: MrPatol

MrPatol — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:12:11 +0000

Dear Neil,
fighting spam and cleaning queues are two subjects totally different.
I like qmail because il like LEGO, you can add, replace, customize every component.
Incoming email are never black or white, how do You recognize ?
- spam filters (spamassasin)
- dns-bl that filer remote IPs
- greylisting
all can be done with a lot of enhancements in qmail, the question is which one is the good for your situation. All MTA are equivalent.

Our domains have been used twice as sender domain from chinese spammers, and there is nothing you can do than clearing the queue. No filters can block tons of bounching emails because they don’t come from bad IP and they don’t contains bad words.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:40:20 +0000

All very neat, but why run a mail server that generates a ton of back scatter SPAM. The email world would be helped a lot more by migrating all qmail users to a mail server that rejects garbage at the SMTP level instead of accepting everything, then spraying bounce messages to innocent users. I like Exim, others may prefer Sendmail or Postfix, but please don’t use qmail. Pretty please.

By: Admin

Admin — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:55:55 +0000

@MrPatol

Thank you very much for your nice scripts

By: MrPatol

MrPatol — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:45:53 +0000

Hi, I have built 2 simple scripts to do the cleaning job based on the emails content to remove (actually for solaris):

/var/qmail/bin/removemsg.sh
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#!/bin/sh

DATA=`/usr/bin/date ‘+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S’`

if [ -f /var/qmail/queue/mess/$1 ]; then
mv /var/qmail/queue/mess/$1 /var/qmail/queue/removed/$1-$DATA
echo moved /var/qmail/queue/mess/$1 to /var/qmail/queue/removed/$1-$DATA >> /var/qmail/queue/rm.log
fi
if [ -f /var/qmail/queue/info/$1 ]; then
rm /var/qmail/queue/info/$1
echo removed /var/qmail/queue/info/$1 >> /var/qmail/queue/rm.log
fi
if [ -f /var/qmail/queue/local/$1 ]; then
rm /var/qmail/queue/local/$1
echo removed /var/qmail/queue/local/$1 >> /var/qmail/queue/rm.log
fi
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and the script You’ll use do start the job. ( the example below to remove all emails containing “661HW” in the body.

removewithcontent.sh
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#!/usr/bin/tcsh
cd /home/qmail/queue/mess

find . -exec grep 661HW \{\} \; -exec /var/qmail/bin/removemsg.sh \{\} \; > /tmp/661HW.queue &
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