qmail commands

qmail commands

How To Manage QMail Queue In Linux Plesk
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1) To check the mail queue in plesk from command line, you can use the command :
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat


2) You can examine the queue with qmail-qread.
# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread

3) From the qread command you get the message’s id . In the above example , one of the id is 524514 . Now you can find the file holding the email in/var/qmail/queue with “find “command.

# find /var/qmail/queue -iname 524514

/var/qmail/queue/remote/22/524514

/var/qmail/queue/mess/22/524514

/var/qmail/queue/info/22/524514


4) From the mail header you get the IP address

vi /var/qmail/queue/mess/22/524514


5) If you wish to remove the emails with some patterns , you can use qmail-remove

qmail-remove installation: http://www.datanethosting.com/kb/plesk-linux/how-to-install-qmail-remove-on-linux-plesk



/etc/init.d/qmail stop

(Stop qmail before removing)


# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remove -r -p “Time Passing”   ---- (considering that “Time Passing” was the subject of the email )



6) Do you wish to completely remove all the mails from queue? Just run the below commands.

find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm {} \;

find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm {} \;

find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm {} \;

find /var/qmail/queue/intd -type f -exec rm {} \;

find /var/qmail/queue/todo -type f -exec rm {} \;

find /var/qmail/queue/remote -type f -exec rm {} \;