Hi,

We have a RaQ550 which has suddenly stopped sending scripted (ie. form to email) emails from certain sites, but works fine for others.

The server is set up as a webserver only - no incoming email or DNS is managed using it. This is all handled elsewhere.

The mailq contains about 500 emails going back a few months - I assume these are my missing emails. Can anyone tell me:

a) How to fix the problem?

b) How to free the stored emails?

Many thanks,

Marcus

Don't really understand... but if you want to empty user email boxes you can go into their mail directories and issue a > command on him.

eg.
for user "exampleuser" issue a ">exampleuser" over SSH when in the mail directory

Hmm that is a weird problem. I would consult someone who knows more on the topic.

ILB - Helpful. Like maybe people who read this forum?

Galacnet - I'm talking about the outgoing email spool queue. Some emails generated by PHP scripts are getting trapped here and never seeing the light of day - it's a real problem.

I don't want to just delete them if I can force them to be sent. But mainly, I just want the problem resolved so we don't lose any more emails.

Thanks.

These are most properly spam because if they are in the mail queue there is a high chance that they are being sent to a non-existing mail box.

To remove them try this on Shell

rm /home/spool/mqueue/q1/*
rm /home/spool/mqueue/q2/*
rm /home/spool/mqueue/q3/*
rm /home/spool/mqueue/q4/*


You may want to read them and see what is being sent out first before you delete.

They're not spam. This server only has my sites on it. The email addresses are fine too. I was hoping to save them, but nevermind.

Thanks though!