[ale] Qmail

John C jcouncilman at knology.net
Tue Nov 28 15:42:21 EST 2006


Ahhh. Forgot about the ALRM signal.  That should work.

On 11/28/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I use 'qmHandle', a perl util to handle such things.
> Looking at the source, it seems a SIGALRM to qmail-send daemon process
> will do the trick. Of course, this assume the qmail-send is aware of your
> relocated queue dir. Otherwise you may need to temporarily move it back to
> default location.
>
> On 11/28/06, John C <jcouncilman at knology.net> wrote:
> >
> > Check out qmail.org for tools to do this.  The qmail queue structure is
> > very delicate and shouldn't really be messed with.  Also, depending on
> > whether you have the big-todo patch, you might have to do it differently.
> >
> > Try this...
> >
> > Eric Huss has released queue-fix 1.4<http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz>.
> > It repairs or generates a qmail queue structure. You can use this to help
> > move your queue location, or if you regenerate the file system and the inode
> > numbering changes. It will also fix permissions and ownerships of the files.
> > Eric reports that Matthew Harrell wrote a patch to queue-fix<http://qmail.org/queue-fix-todo.patch>which makes it work with Russ Nelson's
> > big-todo <http://qmail.org/top.html#big-todo> patch. Patches upon
> > patches!
> >
> > Or this...
> >
> > http://pyropus.ca/software/queue-repair/
> >
> >
> >
> > As far as forcing it to send, you have to edit the "info" file for each
> > message id within the directory.  If not, qmail will use its own algorithm
> > to figure out when to try again.  The longer a message is in the queue, the
> > less often qmail will try to re-send.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/28/06, Brandon Colbert < colbert.brandon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I had to rebuild the mail queue on a customer's server, and reinstall
> > > qmail. Is there a way to get qmail to process the mail in that old queue. I
> > > moved it to the location /var/qmail/queue.bak
> > >
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