qmail-qmaint - queue maintenance
qmail-qmaint [ -i ] | [ -d messid ] [ -D ]
qmail-qmaint inspects s/qmail’s queue and validates its consistancy. In -i interactive mode, individual fixes can be commanded. Queue maintanence also allows to remove particular messages from the queue referencing their messid as given by qmail-qread (without the leading pound sign ’#’) by means of -d messid. Here, only pre-processed and bounce messages are taken into consideration.
Giving -D advices a bulk removal of remnat pre- or post-processed DKIM files in the staging area.
qmail-qmaint must be run either as root or with user id qmails and group id sqmail.
It is strongly advised to use qmail-qmaint only in case qmail-send was shut down before. Queue inspection on a ’sane’ queue is however none-destructive.
qmail-qmaint unlike qmail-queue prints diagnostics messages. It exits 0 if it has successfully inspected the queue or the message has been deleted. It may exit 99 in case of a warning, or 100 if an operation can not be completed, or 110 if a directory can not be accessed.
qmail-qstat(8), qmail-qread(8), qmail-send(8), qmail-queue(9)
qmail-qmaint is based on the program ’queue-fix’ written be Eric Huss.