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Howto manage qmail queue in Plesk linux

You can use third party programs like qmail-remove http://www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/qmail/qmail-remove to accomplish queue management in plesk control panel managed qmail

The Plesk control panel itself provides a modified version od qmHandle ( http://qmhandle.sourceforge.net/ )along with it that can be used with ease to manage the queue

To see the statistics of the queue:

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/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -s
Messages in local queue:  0
Messages in remote queue: 0
Messages in todo queue:   0
Messages total:           0
Messages found:           0
Timestamp: 1215870834
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From this you can see the status of qmails local,remote and todo list

If you wish to do a delivery of the queued messages now run the following command

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -a

To list remote message queue:

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -R

list local message queue:

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -L

To list message queue:

list message queues -l

To delete messages with a particular pattern in the subject line

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -S”text”

eg: /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -S”failure notice”

will delete all delivery failed messages

To delete all messages in the queue (Use with caution - possible data loss )

/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -D

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