Handle spamming in qmail

Qmail Commands:

root@linux ~]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat 

messages in queue: 123 

messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 

You can examine the queue with qmail-qread. 

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread

From the qread command you get the message’s id . If the id is 12345 .

Now you can find the file holding the email in/var/qmail/queue with “find “command.

find /var/qmail/queue -iname 12345

Above will output like this :

/var/qmail/queue/remote/22/12345 

/var/qmail/queue/mess/22/12345 

/var/qmail/queue/info/22/12345 

Now open that file and you should be able to get the details.

vi /var/qmail/queue/mess/22/12345

If you wish to completely remove all the mails from queue just run the below commands.

find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec rm {} \;

 find /var/qmail/queue/info -type f -exec rm {} \; 

find /var/qmail/queue/local -type f -exec rm {} \; 

find /var/qmail/queue/intd -type f -exec rm {} \; 

find /var/qmail/queue/todo -type f -exec rm {} \; 

find /var/qmail/queue/remote -type f -exec rm {} \;