Archive · February 27, 2010

force qmail to send queue - ubuntu + plesk + qmail

SMTP routes for qmail added our ISP's outgoing mail server in hopes of getting stuff delivered. hopefully avoiding blacklists and stuff(); root@blue:/var/qmail/control# nano smtproutes added ISP :smtp.fuse.net root@blue:/var/qmail/control# /etc/init.d/qmail restart $Starting qmail: done restarted qmail root@blue:/var/qmail/control# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 74 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 root@blue:/var/qmail/control# kill -ALRM `ps ax | grep qmail-send | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` root@blue:/var/qmail/control# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 37 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 1 root@blue:/var/qmail/control# after a few flushes, nothing in the queue!!! force qmail to send all in queue kill -ALRM `ps ax | grep qmail-send | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'` open relay check: http://www.checkor.com/ blacklist: http://www.myiptest.com/staticpages/index.php/check-Blacklisted-IP-DNSBL