Questions tagged [qmail]

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Remove messages from qmail queue without stopping qmail

I have 500k spam messages in my outgoing queue. From experience, I know this will take a long time to remove. All the tools I know of require stopping qmail to remove messages. Does anyone one know of a tool which will let me selectively delete…
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Can Postfix handle multiple address extensions like Qmail does ([email protected])?

Qmail and Postfix support address extensions like [email protected] where emails will be delivered to username, if the delimiter is configured to -. Users can handle mails with .forward files in their home directory by default. (Or .qmail…
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Drudging through email logs

I am in charge of maintaining a linux e-mail server running qmail on Red Hat Linux. Fairly often, I have to trace the path of some email through syslog and to be frank, this is rather tedious. Are there any desktop apps (or even command tools) that…
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Your system needs to have a fully qualified domain name (fqdn)

I am trying to install some Qt libraries like this: sudo apt-get install libqt5webengine5 libqt5webenginewidgets5 But I keep getting such errors: The hostname -f command returned: $1 Your system needs to have a fully qualified domain name (fqdn)…
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how can I manage services running in freebsd jail

I've inherited some systems that run on freebsd and inside jails. Basically the services running are old versions of qmail, spamd, dovecot, etc. None of the versions are up to date or even maintainable any more. At present we can't move from these…
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Make qmail dequeue only during certain time period per day

I am using qmail to send a large number of emails on behalf of many people. It varies between 400k and 600k emails per job. A php script queues up all of the messages, which takes a few hours. The messages then take about 24-48 hours to dequeue and…
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sslserver using 100% cpu

I've a qmail setup with sslserver being used to secure the pop connections. Normally it runs very well, however some instances of sslserver start taking 100% cpu and its child process qmail-pop3d process is seen as zombie. The process has to be…
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