On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:05:54AM -0500, James Beam wrote:
> My que is getting rather cluttered up (I am running Qmail MRTG
> (http://mail.royaleq.com/qmail/), and it shows a constant 12 - 16
> message back-log in the que). How can I either force the que to
> re-process, or clear it out altogether?
killall -ALRM qmail-send
Sending SIGALRM forces qmail-send to rerun the queue. Clearing it out
all together would be as simple as killing qmail-send and running a
command something like this:
find /var/qmail/queue -type f -exec rm {} \;
Which would delete every message from your outbound queue.
> It is lagging other messages flowing through the system.
No, it isn't. One of the design features of qmail is that its queue
system is very lightweight. IIRC, each message in the queue consumes
something like 8 bytes of RAM. qmail maintains a list of which mail
servers are failing and doesn't retry them as frequently. All of this
means that having mail in the queue is only a problem from an aesthetic
point of view. I work for an ISP and manage a small cluster of
qmail/vpop servers. Because of the nature of qmail, we always have a
large quantity of bouncing spam in the outbound queue. I've seen it get
as high as 1000 messages per box and it has had zero effect on system
speed.
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