On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 05:32:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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
Hmm you really only need to disable qmail-queue, but disabling the other services too
might look better to your users :)
> 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?
Yeah. This won't work. The messages are already queued for remote delivery.
There's a much simpler way: install the new qmail in a new location, use smtproutes
to deliver everything to localhost, start qmail-smtpd for the new qmail on port 25
but start qmail-send from the old qmail. Do the qmail-tcpok and kill -ALRM thingy,
and everything should be peachy.
Also, in your situation, you might as well just move the queue directory to another
directory on the _same_ filesystem, then moving it back after installing the new
qmail..
Greetz, Peter.
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.| Peter van Dijk | <mo|VERWEG> stoned worden of coden
.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | <mo|VERWEG> dat is de levensvraag
| <mo|VERWEG> coden of stoned worden
| <mo|VERWEG> stonend worden En coden
| <mo|VERWEG> hmm
| <mo|VERWEG> dan maar stoned worden en slashdot lezen:)
