Clear and clean and empty the qmail queue

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Steve

Learn how to clear, clean, and empty

the qmail queue

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15 thoughts on “Clear and clean and empty the qmail queue”

bellablue on March 20, 2008 at 9:57 am said:

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

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bellablue on March 22, 2008 at 2:54 am said:

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?

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Steve on March 22, 2008 at 9:04 am said:

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 site here:
http://forum.qmailrocks.org/

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

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Joe on July 2, 2008 at 3:48 pm said:

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

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Steve on July 30, 2008 at 8:47 am said:

Joe – I’m glad this worked for you.

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solshark on September 10, 2008 at 4:17 pm said:

Thx so much!

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Steve on September 13, 2008 at 9:21 am said:

solshark – I’m glad this post could help!

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Tony on December 16, 2008 at 5:40 am said:

This is best utility! Thank you for the kick ass utiltity to clear my qmail queue. It’s the quickest and easiest way to clear it.

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Scott on April 23, 2009 at 9:48 pm said:

Steve -

Thanks so much for this. Worked like a charm.

- Scott

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alec on February 11, 2010 at 11:08 am said:

Hi. My server is a victim of Back Scatter. The only thing I can tell is to compile a chkusr patch with qmail and plesk and it would fix my problem. However, the compile fails due to complications with plesk. Do you know of another way to handle this?
Someone told me that using postfix instead of qmail would work but backscatter is REALLY BAD. I get up to 3 spams a second even with all services turned off. They just keep coming on in!
Any help greatly appreciated.

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bill Rogers on April 24, 2010 at 8:31 pm said:

I use the solution you are whowing but when I run the qmailclear, I get it. the queue is not clear. please help

messages in queue: 479660
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 2
[root@ip-97-74-112-68 ~]# sh qmailclear.sh
Stopping Qmail – MinisterAlan
Stopping : Clearing the Mail Queue
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Info folder clean, clearing mess folder
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Mess folder clean, clearing remote folder
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Remote folder clean, clearing intd folder
Intd folder clean, clearing local folder
Local folder clean, clearing todo folder
Mail queue cleaned
Re-Start Qmail Now !
Starting qmail:

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- Steve on May 31, 2010 at 3:18 pm said:
  
  I bet this is driving you nuts! The only solution I have for “Argument list too long” is the one listed above in the original post.
  
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John C on June 8, 2010 at 2:33 am said:

what can I say? Thank you x 10. We had been hacked and were left with a massive mail queue. I can go to bed to night and sleep!

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Steve on August 3, 2010 at 11:59 am said:

Great! I’m glad you were able to get it cleared out. Good luck keeping it that way.

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Raphael on March 1, 2011 at 4:57 pm said:

Hello,
Nice script. Very helpful. Thanks.

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