Great program for fixing the queue. Hope I never have to use it.
I thought of another robust method for moving the queue, but
thankfully have never needed to try it. What do you think?
It employs djb's serialmail.
(install serialmail and follow install instructions in
<serialmail source>/TOISP including setting up a
virtual domain to which to deliver all mail to a maildir)
disable qmail-inject and qmail-smtpd so users can't add
things to the queue
kill -HUP <qmail-send pid> # recognize the virtual domain addition
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-tcpok # reset retry timeout
kill -ALRM <qmail-send pid> # reattempt all deliveries (into maildir)
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat # check to make sure queue is empty
kill <qmail-lspawn pid> # shut down qmail
install qmail in a new location with 'make setup check' after
modifying the file locations, of course (even if just creating
a queue in a new location)
start up the new qmail
reenable qmail-inject and qmail-smtpd
use serialmail to deliver all the queued mail in the maildir back
into the queue
This should, in many cases, also work for queues low on disk space
because as things are delivered to the maildir (on a different partition
with more disk space!) space is created in the queue. (After issueing
qmail-tcpok, you can modify the delivery retry on the huge file(s) that
are stalling the queue so that when you give qmail-send a SIGALRM, it
doesn't attempt to deliver them yet)
Comments?
Glenn
> >
> > I have released a new version of queue-fix. This version fixes a serious
> > problem where it could delete messages from the queue. Thanks to Harald
> > Hanche-Olsen for alerting me to the bug.
> >
> > queue-fix is a program for repairing the qmail queue. It will allow you
> > to move the queue, repair the queue after recreating the file system, or
> > even create a queue from scratch.
> >
> > You can download queue-fix from:
> >
> > http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz
> >
> > or
> >
> > ftp://ftp.netmeridian.com/queue-fix.tar.gz
> >
> > -Eric
>
>
