You made a fundamental mistake. You changed your system without knowing what was wrong with it, and without knowing what you were doing.
The process should be 1) observe 2) diagnose and then 3) correct.
I know, i tried but the diagnose process was not so easy. I didn't find any information about my logs.
You can't until you know where they are. And then the answer will be, maybe you can't retrieve them. That's why you should have left them safely in the mail queue until you properly diagnosed your problem.
You should look in your qmail log files and try to determine what happened to those messages when you deleted all the files that you shouldn't have deleted.
When i have moved the files and launched a
qmHandle -a, all the queued messages arrived to my users, the qmail log didn't report anything strange, but, after the receipt of the queue, the problem has returned and some new .qmail files were written inside my users folders.
After this i checked what was inside this file and I found a line i don't have in my clean sme.
At the end i restored the previous files, that ones i had moved, and I have commented the line i wrote some message ago. In my qmail log, after the "solution" all seemed to work well, i didn't see any particular message.
Not a good solution but never had some big mistake with emails, just with RBL list or other lists, nothing serious.
Until the server is running, I can prepare another virtual machine with a new clean installation, restore my affa backup and do some tests on it.
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