Different Qmail queue tricks in Linux plesk

Following are some of the qmail commands for Plesk server.

1) To check the mail queue in plesk from command line, you can use the command :

[root@vps init.d]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 1
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
[root@vps init.d]#

2) You can examine the queue with qmail-qread.

# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
root@vps init.d]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
16 Sep 2011 06:14:22 GMT #218926412 299 anonymous@vps.test.com
remote dave@davidlbird.com
[root@vps init.d]#
3) From the qread command you get the message’s id . In the above example , one of the id is 218926412 . Now you can find the file holding the email in/var/qmail/queue with “find “command.


[root@vps init.d]# find /var/qmail/queue -iname 218926412

/var/qmail/queue/mess/15/218926412
/var/qmail/queue/remote/15/218926412
/var/qmail/queue/info/15/218926412

[root@vps init.d]# vi /var/qmail/queue/mess/22/524514

Received: (qmail 9264 invoked by uid 10000); 16 Sep 2011 06:14:22 -0700
Date: 16 Sep 2011 06:14:22 -0700
Message-ID: <20110916131422 .9260.qmail=".9260.qmail" vps.pcbuniverse.com="vps.pcbuniverse.com">
To: Dave@DavidLBird.com
Subject: the subject
From: tchase@pcbuniverse.com
Reply-To: tchase@pcbuniverse.com
X-Mailer: PHP/5.1.6
hello
~


5) If you wish to remove the emails with some patterns , you can use qmail-remove ( You can download it from http://www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/qmail/qmail-remove )

# /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 )
The above steps can be used to track Spammers .
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 {} \;