Comments on: Clear / clean / empty the qmail queue

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:21:15 +0000

solshark - I’m glad this post could help!

By: solshark

solshark — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:17:07 +0000

Thx so much!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:47:35 +0000

Joe - I’m glad this worked for you.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:48:04 +0000

Hi,

I just want to say that is the best script I have
ever used….

I have tried another command and it would just hang this worked and
and completed in like 10 mins…

Thanks,
Joe

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:04:12 +0000

bellablue - I’m glad it helped the first time, but now it sits in the queue? That’s not good. I don’t know if you broke anything when you cleared the queue but I’m assuming you didn’t because it was full in the first place and may have had problems sending at that time. I’m not sure what the solution is to help you out but I can lead you in the right direction. Check out this post at Qmail Rocks and you can explore the rest of that site here:
http://forum.qmailrocks.org/

I know this is frustrating, so I wish you good luck!

By: bellablue

bellablue — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:54:13 +0000

ok - I am still thankful but now I anything I send just sits in que and wont send ??? what happened? nothing is sending - did it screw up my qmail?

By: bellablue

bellablue — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:57:58 +0000

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR THIS INFO - honestly having a dedicated server - the people running it are no help!!! thank you !!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:00:20 +0000

tapster - I’m glad this helped you, and remember… Japan is here waiting for you.

Mike - I’m glad this helped. For the spam, I’m not sure what you can do if your qmail queue is getting bogged down. Your hosting company should help you (even though they say your settings are fine). If you’re always getting the queue filled up there must be an issue on the server with something (vague I know).

If it’s spam being sent to you and landing in your inbox you might look at having Spam Assassin installed. Here’s a wikipedia page about it. In the options you can mark spam suspect emails with [SPAM] in the subject and filter them to the junk mail box in Outlook, etc. Or you can have Google/Gmail handle it by using their service. Good luck!

By: Mike Pulli

Mike Pulli — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:20:32 +0000

Thank you for the awesome utiltity to clear my qmail queue. I’m having a problem with a lot of spam getting through, not being rejected for some reason and it’s just building up in the queue and eventually crashing the smtp server hosted by qmail ( I think). Do you have any suggestions that I could use for my spam settings.. I’ve checked with the tech who “hold” my server and they say the spam settings I have are good.

Any help you could provide would be awesome!

Thanks. Mike

By: tapster

tapster — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:05:22 +0000

thanks so much for this.. my server had run out of inodes and I discovered it was qmail with tens of thousands of file handles

quick google and stumbled on your site, and the above worked a treat

Im also a big fan of Japan, been a few times, and would love to live there one day

thanks again