Qmail cheat sheet

http://supportlobby.com/blog/category/technical/qmail-technical/

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1) To check the mail queue in plesk from command line, you can use the command :

 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
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2) You can examine the queue with qmail-qread.

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
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3) From the qread command you get the message id . In the above example , let us assume one of the id is 524514 . Now you can find the file holding the email in/var/qmail/queue with find command.

# find /var/qmail/queue -iname 524514

/var/qmail/queue/remote/22/524514

/var/qmail/queue/mess/22/524514 (mail headers)

/var/qmail/queue/info/22/524514

4) From the mail header you get the IP address

vi /var/qmail/queue/mess/22/524514


Or

Shortcut for the cool guys
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find /var/qmail/queue -iname queu_id | grep mess | xargs less

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4) If you wish to remove the emails with some patterns , you can use qmail-remove

# /etc/init.d/qmail stop (Stop qmail before removing)

# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remove -r -p "Time Passing"

(considering that Time Passing was the subject of the email )

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-remove -r -p (mail id)
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You can also use the qmHandle to remove the mails but in case of large shared servers i recommend the qmail remove.

If you are further more interested in Qmail i recommend http://www.lifewithqmail.org/

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/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mail_auth_view | grep mailid >> to get password

Note : This is stricly for the Linux Plesk server with the Qmail as the mail transfer agent.

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to set mail forwarding from back end.

[@ test]# cat .qmail
| true
| /usr/bin/deliverquota ./Maildir
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