How do I rebuild qmail queue if it is damaged or consists of a lot of spam messages ?

This instruction is written for RPM-based systems (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc...).

Please perform the following steps to recreate Qmail`s queue.

Attention!

All current messages will be removed from the queue in this case and cannot be restored.

1. Stop Qmail and xinetd.
   
   /etc/init.d/qmail stop
   /etc/init.d/xinetd stop
   
   
2. Move current queue to another location.
   
   mv /var/qmail/queue /var/qmail/queue_old
   
   
3. Reinstall 'psa-qmail' RPM to recreate qmail queue structure with the command like:
   
   rpm -Uvh --force psa-qmail....
   
   
4. (Optional).Reinstall drweb-qmail RPM if you use DrWeb antivirus feature which comes with Plesk.
   
   rpm -Uvh --force drweb-qmail....
   
   
5. Start Qmail and xinetd:
   
   /etc/init.d/qmail start
   
   /etc/init.d/xinetd start
   
   Note: you should get the both psa-qmail and drweb-qmail RPMs from the same Plesk version distributive which is installed on the server.
   You can obtain current psa-qmail, drweb-qmail RPMs and Plesk build versions by running the following commands on Linux systems:
   
   
   

rpm -q psa-qmail
rpm -q drweb-qmail
rpm -q psa