Archive for qmail

How to force qmail to process the outbound queue

by: WanderingTechy February 2, 2012

If/When you get a DNS problem or other network issue that causes the queue to fail it will fill up at a fair speed.  Use the following to tell qmail to make another attempt at sending. /var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok Or you can do this. Run ps axl and find the process id (PID) for qmail-send Run kill [...]

Remove DRWeb from plesk

by: WanderingTechy February 1, 2012

DRWeb has been causing lots of problems on 3 servers.  Here is how to remove it completely If you then get any error messages in your log files do this.

Changing the default output IP

by: WanderingTechy June 10, 2011

If you want to change the outgoing IP address of your server use the following command. Execute this command The output should look something like this. If no ‘src’ listed in ‘ip’ output for default route, then main IP on the interface is used for an outgoing connections. You can change it using: Now when [...]

A quicker way to install spamdyke greylisting with control panel on plesk

by: WanderingTechy March 11, 2011

Here is a quicker way to install greylisting and give it a decent control panel in plesk Big thanks to http://www.atomicorp.com/ I don’t trust or use the builtin greylisting in plesk as it is borked and I can’t see them getting it right.

How to clear the qmail queue

by: WanderingTechy September 2, 2009

I recently needed to clear down a qmail queue.  There were no valid emails on the server but the queue was full of failed spam (blocked) This script clears the queue.