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Qmail trouble shooting#

Linux mail server commands - smtp service
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Find Message from ID

find /var/qmail/queue/ -type f -iname $ID

Find Message from String

grep -ir "$STRING"  /var/qmail/queue/mess/ 

How many emails in queue

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat

List emails in queue

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread

Remove emails in queue (Remember to stop qmail before you do this service qmail stop/service qmail start)

/usr/local/sbin/qmail-remove -r -p"stringtosearch"

Yanked folder (delete when done)

/var/qmail/queue/yanked/

Delete

find /var/qmail/queue/yanked/. | xargs rm -rf

SMTP Auth log

/var/log/secure

Mail Log

/var/log/maillog

Mail Log on Plesk

/usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

Show smtp connections:

netstat | grep smtp

Xinet conf

/etc/xinetd.conf

The Test

Connect
telnet mailserver.com 25

Handshake
EHLO mailserver.com

Identify Sender
MAIL FROM:<user@mailserver.com>

Identify Recipient
RCPT TO:<user@mailserver.com>

Provide Message Body
DATA
subject:subject goes here
this is my test message
sincerely,
user
.

• Check this out:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/1711

http://kb.parallels.com/766

If you want all mail to unknown local addresses to be delivered to the void, you can do this:

echo '#' > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default 

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