Devinder writes:
> Hi !!
>
> I have a very long mail queue of about 3,00,000 messages .. is
> there a way I can save these messages somewhere and deliver them
> later using some script or something and clean up the queue now.
3 lakh messages isn't that much, even if your conf-split is still at
23. If you're routinely going to have that many messages in your
queue, you should increase conf-split. The easiest way to do that is
like this:
Assumption: you're running qmail under daemontools 0.70, and you're
using /var/qmail as the service directory.
o move your existing copy of qmail to a different location.
o the rest of these instructions assume /var/qmail2.
o make two copies of the source tree, one for qmail and the other
for qmail2.
o Go to the qmail2 source tree (currently they're both the same).
o modifying the first line of conf-qmail to read: /var/qmail2.
o recompile qmail.
o stop qmail, smtpd, pop3, and any other service that accesses qmail.
o remove the symlink in /service that points to qmail
o mv /var/qmail to /var/qmail2
o make a symlink from /var/qmail2 to /service/qmail2
o don't start qmail2 yet (it's supervise is still running, but is down.)
o Now go to the source tree for qmail.
o Edit conf-split to have a largeish prime number like 521 (close to
a square root of your expected queue size).
o mkdir /var/qmail
o make setup check
o restore the symlink in /service that points to qmail
o start all the services again.
o In a week, after all the mail messages in the queue have been
delivered or bounced, you can stop and remove /var/qmail2.
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