QMAIL-REMOVE installation

QMAIL-REMOVE installation

HOW TO INSTALL QMAIL-REMOVE ON LINUX PLESK?

Ref: http://www.datanethosting.com/kb/plesk-linux/how-to-install-qmail-remove-on-linux-plesk



First we will install Qmail-Remove on the server. Download the latest version through given below link.
Using following command

#wget http://www.linuxmagic.com/opensource/qmail/qmail-remove/qmail-remove-0.95.tar.gz

Now, you have file qmail-remove-0.95.tar.gz and extract this file using given below command.

#tar -zxvf qmail-remove-0.95.tar.gz

You must have this folder now.

qmail-remove-0.95

cd qmail-remove-0.95

#make

#make install

This will complete the installation.

So, now we have to create a directory called “yanked” in the qmail queue before we start using Qmail-Remove otherwise it will give some error.

#mkdir /var/qmail/queue/yanked
Using qmail-remove

Syntax

qmail-remove [options]

Available options

-e use extended POSIX regular expressions
-h, -? this help message
-i search case insensitively [default: case sensitive]
-n limit our search to the first bytes of each file
-p specify the pattern to search for
-q specify the base qmail queue dir [default: /var/qmail/queue]
-r actually remove files, without this we.ll only print them
-s specify your conf-split value if non-standard [default: 23]
-v increase verbosity (can be used more than once)
-y directory to put files yanked from the queue [default: /yanked]
-X modify timestamp on matching files, to make qmail expire mail is the number of seconds we want to move the file into
the past.specifying a value of 0 causes this to default to (604800)
-x modify timestamp on matching files, to make qmail expire mail is a date/time string in the format of output of the
.date. program.

Examples for qmail-remove

Before doing any thing related to qmail queue you need to stop the qmail service using the following command

#/etc/init.d/qmail stop

To delete mails from Que,

#qmail-remove -r -p

# qmail-remove -r -p gtre.ac.net
324001: yes

moved mess/0/324001 to yanked/324001.mess

moved remote/0/324001 to yanked/324001.remote

moved info/0/324001 to yanked/324001.info
324024: yes

moved mess/0/324024 to yanked/324024.mess

moved remote/0/324024 to yanked/324024.remote

moved info/0/324024 to yanked/324024.info

This will remove all emails in que with .gtre.ac.net. in it and place it in /var/qmail/queue/yanked folder.