On 05/02/2012 02:02 PM, Haru wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a website in a vps that has installed Kloxo with
qmailtoaster. We were having some problems with our mails being reported
as spam, and when I logged into our control panel to check this noticed
that we had thousands of mails in our mail queue (that apparently were
being sent from a test account that I made with a "test" password... bad
idea). I tried deleting the queue from the Kloxo interface, but it was
pointless since I could only delete about 320 mails by step, so without
much thinking I deleted the /var/qmail/queue folder. After that I
noticed that the mail queue list was indeed empty now, but that I
couldn't send or receive mails.
Ouch. Bad idea all right.
I ran this script to rebuild the subdirectories that I deleted by
mistake
http://support.godaddy.com/help/246/how-do-i-rebuild-qmails-queue-if-it-is-damaged-or-consists-of-a-lot-of-spam-messages
but after restating the server or changing everything to 777 nothing
seems to work. I have been trying to solve this problem searching online
for about 3 hours without any progress, so I'm recurring to this mailing
list as my last hope.
The qmailtoaster-plus package has a queue repair tool
(http://qtp.qmailtoaster.com/trac/wiki/Features#queue_repair.py).
I would give that a try.
I deleted the logs after I deleted our queue, our current "smtp.log"
file is full of lines like this from mail I'm trying to send to our website:
CHKUSER accepted rcpt: from <[email protected]::> remote
<:blu0-omc1-s27.blu0.hotmail.com:65.55.116.38> rcpt <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> : found existing recipient
qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (qq trouble creating files in queue
(#4.3.0)): MAILFROM:<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
RCPTTO:[email protected] <mailto:rcptto%[email protected]>
CHKUSER accepted rcpt: from <[email protected]::> remote
<:blu0-omc1-s11.blu0.hotmail.com:65.55.116.22> rcpt <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> : found existing recipient
qmail-dk:[3290]: Dying due to write operation error (disk full?).
qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)):
MAILFROM:<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
RCPTTO:[email protected] <mailto:rcptto%[email protected]>
CHKUSER accepted rcpt: from <[email protected]::> remote
<:blu0-omc1-s23.blu0.hotmail.com:65.55.116.34> rcpt <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> : found existing recipient
qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (qq trouble creating files in queue
(#4.3.0)): MAILFROM:<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
RCPTTO:[email protected] <mailto:rcptto%[email protected]>
This appears to be normal, given the circumstance (queues are hosed).
"mailog" is filled with lines like this, I think they must be spam bots
or something trying to send mail from the account I deleted:
May 3 00:08:47 nanofate vpopmail[1760]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not
found [email protected]:123.162.232.100
May 3 00:08:48 nanofate qmail: 1335989328.011946 alert: cannot start:
unable to open mutex
May 3 00:10:02 nanofate vpopmail[3171]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not
found [email protected]:110.52.6.56
May 3 00:10:08 nanofate vpopmail[3188]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not
found [email protected]:110.52.6.56
May 3 00:10:10 nanofate vpopmail[3198]: vchkpw-smtp: vpopmail user not
found [email protected]:219.159.197.61
That appears to be correct.
You might want to consider installing fail2ban. I think there are
details for doing this on the wiki.
Also, apparently we still have plenty of free space in our vps, so I
think that shouldn't be the problem:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 20G 6.4G 14G 32% /
none 512M 4.0K 512M 1% /dev
/dev/simfs 20G 6.4G 14G 32% /var/named/chroot/var/run/dbus
Thanks in advance for your time.
Certainly.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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