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Title: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Les Kerjenski on December 16, 2002, 12:41:16 PM: Hi,
I have not had much experience with the SME Server and have a problem user who has attempted to send a message that is 1.6Gbs in size, yep 1.6 Gig.
Can anyone assist in explaining how I can delete this from the SMTP queue ?

Many thanks,

Les
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: brian read on December 16, 2002, 01:01:36 PM: Can't you use the web mail interface to delete the email?

http://yourserver/webmail

cheers

Brian
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Les Kerjenski on December 16, 2002, 02:28:40 PM: I have tried this, but it has been received by the server, and now trying to pass it to our provider ?

I wondered if there was a bit of software to poke in to the queue ?
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Les Kerjenski on December 16, 2002, 02:28:43 PM: I have tried this, but it has been received by the server, and now trying to pass it to our provider ?

I wondered if there was a bit of software to poke in to the queue ?
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Les Kerjenski on December 16, 2002, 02:28:45 PM: I have tried this, but it has been received by the server, and now trying to pass it to our provider ?

I wondered if there was a bit of software to poke in to the queue ?
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Bob Todd on December 16, 2002, 07:00:01 PM: http://e-smith.org/bboard/read.php?f=3&i=19573&t=19573

Take a look here - this is the change that will prevent such things happening again - look at Charlie Bradys input to the discussion - he tells you how to implement max mail message limits. Not sure if you added this whether it would work on the current queue though. Dont know any way of editing the queue myself. You could look at the qmail website for more help perhaps. www.qmail.org
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Bob King on December 18, 2002, 01:55:22 AM: The program you are looking for is called "qmHandle". There is a contrib RPM for this that installs a Server-Manager pannel called "Qmail Queue Managment".

I'm not sure where the RPM is located but if you do a search you should be able to find it.
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Andy Parkinson on December 18, 2002, 03:52:48 AM: Hi Les I have looked into this and it should just be a matter of deleting the relevant message in the directory /var/qmail/queue/mess
Log on to the server using putty as root and go to the above directory and underneath it are a lot of numbered directories. I guess the offending message will be in one of these and be 1.5 gig. I have reproduced your problem tonight by sending out a large mail and then searching these directories until i found it and then deleting the file. If you want to know how many messages are in the queue so as to tell if it is getting any less use the command /var/qmail/bin/qmail-stat

If you need any more help contact me off line

Andy
Title: Re: SMTP need to delete ?
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on December 18, 2002, 03:58:20 AM: Or just download Darrell May's qmail rpm:

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/qmhandle/

Cyrus Bharda