I had everything working perfectly, then out of nowhere, my email alias for root was reset to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I have no idea how this happened, but nonetheless, it caused thousands of messages to get backed up in the queue and double bounce.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the example address used in the toaster. If you copied and pasted the commands, you likely overwrote your previous entries.
In an effort to remove all the pending messages, I removed most of the "1". "2"..."19".. directories in the /var/qmail/queue subdirectories. I did get rid of the huge bounce queue, but now qmail won't work! I'm getting this message: "451 qq trouble creating files in queue "
I know it was a dumb move (I assumed they were temp directories to handle the large queue), but what the best way to re-create all the queue subdirectories I removed?
Yikes. Don't ever mess with the queue unless you know exactly what you are doing. When I want to empty the queue, I usually do it via queuelifetime, rather than trying to touch the right files with a specific date to force expiration, which is the only proper way to do it AFAIK.
You can try make setup check from the netqmail source (patched, of course), and it will recreate the queue directory. However, if that directory is already present, I'm not sure if it will recreate the subdirectories that you deleted. If in doubt, rm the queue directory, and re-install netqmail with make setup check. That should do it.
Regards,
Bill
