Re: qmail-queue not processing outgoing or incoming mail

[Charles Cazabon <qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick Phillips <rickp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did a stupid thing and deleted the following /var/qmail/queue folders
> while trying to remove a mountain of undeliverable messages.  One of my
> users gave a bogus address to a porn site and is now getting tons of
> emails.  Unfortunately, he used his correct URL but a bogus recipient.

"domain", not URL.

> /info
> /local
> /mess
> /remote

Yes, that's bad.

> I have tried to reconstruct them by recreating the 0-22 folders within
> each of these sub folders with the user:group from the parent folder and
> the permissions rwx------ in each case.  This seems to be consistent
> with the permissions/ownership from an old backup I have.

If it was correct, it would work.

> Am I faced with totally reinstalling qmail

No.  Stop qmail-send.  Then prevent new mail from being queued while you
repair it:

  chmod 0 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue

Then move your old queue out of the way:

  mv /var/qmail/queue /var/qmail/queue.broken

Then, from the qmail source directory, have it re-create the queue:

  make setup check

You should be able to restart qmail after that.  If you want to save any
messages from the old queue, you'll have to do that by hand.

Charles
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