Why is your queue filling up so quickly? You are using tcpserver and have entries in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts right? If not, spammers are probably relaying through you. I use qmail to send out our financial subscription lists to millions of people a day, and I only have 1130 messages sitting in my queue right now. These are almost all bounces. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Stanley [mailto:barnabas at knicknack.net] > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:10 PM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] qmail question > > > You might also need to clean the remote part of the queue with > find /var/qmail/queue/remote -type f -exec rm -f {} \; > > Do you know what is filling up the queue? I almost wonder if someone > isn't using you as a relay. > > Eric > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:53:12AM -0800, ravenmaster wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Here's one for all you qmail magicians... > > > > How do you clean out the queue and start over? > > > > Situation: > > > > I had qmail 1.03 installed on a redhat 6.2 box and messages kept > > queueing, to the point it filled up /var filesystem. > > > > qmail-qstat showed over 1700 messages queued > > > > I've read most of the qmail docs and been to the qmail FAQ > and website > > and didn't find an answer. > > > > Here's what I tried: > > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stop > > # remove the messages > > find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm -f {} \; > > find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm -f {} \; > > find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm -f {} \; > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-start > > > > This manually cleaned out the queue and qmail-qstat then showed 0 > > messages queued. But after a period of time (about a day), > it filled > > up /var again and there were a large number of messages > queued. I even > > tried a clean re-install of qmail and it did the same thing. > > > > qmail did work initially on this box, as I went through the tests > > listed in one of the qmail docs and they all worked ok. I'm running > > sendmail now because it works and I didn't have time to > mess with qmail > > filling up /var daily. I do have qmail running flawlessly on other > > systems, but would like to know the answer to this question in the > > event it happens again. > > > > Any suggestions would be much appreciated. > > -scot > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >