I needed some help with the qmail setup in a firm I have just joined.
The server is the gateway for an office intranet with qmail as MTA. Internal mail works fine, but since the linux box is on dial up, the outgoing messages are queued up. the server auto-dials ( using wvdial ) every half-hour and fetchmail is executed (in ip-up.local). The problem is that some times the qmail queue does not get cleared and some emails are never sent.
daemontools are not installed.The qmail daemon is started using the csh -cf method. I looked up qmail.org and tried the recommended kill -TERM <qmail-send pid> but does not seem to work.
Does anyone know why this happens? And is there any method by which I can manually flush the queue and send all the messages instantly? If there is any more info needed, pls let me know.
Thanks for any help, Steven
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Qmail does act funny sometimes, especially when used without daemontools. I would suggest that you use Qmail with daemontools, and supervise it asap.
For now, I wud suggest that you use the lesser known holdremote patch for qmail (http://www.leverton.org/qmail.html). I've used this for a lot of time, and haven't faced any problems with this. I can strongly recommend this for dial-up machines using qmail.
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 20:16, Steven Rebello wrote:
I needed some help with the qmail setup in a firm I have just joined.
The server is the gateway for an office intranet with qmail as MTA. Internal mail works fine, but since the linux box is on dial up, the outgoing messages are queued up. the server auto-dials ( using wvdial ) every half-hour and fetchmail is executed (in ip-up.local). The problem is that some times the qmail queue does not get cleared and some emails are never sent.
daemontools are not installed.The qmail daemon is started using the csh -cf method. I looked up qmail.org and tried the recommended kill -TERM <qmail-send pid> but does not seem to work.
Does anyone know why this happens? And is there any method by which I can manually flush the queue and send all the messages instantly? If there is any more info needed, pls let me know.
Thanks for any help, Steven
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On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 20:16, Steven Rebello wrote:
The problem is that some times the qmail queue does not get cleared and some emails are never sent.
What do the qmail logs say?
Sameer.
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