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Plesk uses Qmail as mail server on Linux server.

Here are some useful commands related to Qmail mail server.

Hope you find them informative and helpful !

1) Start Qmail service

# service qmail start

2) Stop Qmail service

# service qmail stop

3) Status of Qmail service

# service qmail status

4) Qmail log on Plesk server

# /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

5) To view the amount of messages currently in your outbound queue

# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat

6)To list out all messages in your outbound queue

# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread

7) To read the entire contents of an email, including headers, where NNNN is the 8 digit ID specified on the /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread command

# find /var/qmail/queue -name NNNN| xargs cat | less

8.) To remove specific mails from mail queue

(requires qmail-remove install on server)

#qmail-remove -r -p

# qmail-remove -r -p xyz.com

This will remove all emails in queue with “xyz.com” in it

9) Mailbox location in Plesk

cd  /var/qmail/mailnames/

If any feedback, queries are always welcome!

Abhijit Sandhan

The author is a Linux System Administrator and likes to blog.

    

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