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title	date	description	tags
Qmail	2018-03-05	Some qmail commands	toolbox

Commands

• Get statistics : qmail-qstat
• list queued mails : qmail-qread
• Read an email in the queue (NNNN is the #id from qmail-qread) : find /var/qmail/queue -name NNNN| xargs cat | less
• Change queue lifetime for qmail in seconds (example here for 15 days) : echo 1296000 > /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime

References

• http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html
• http://www.fileformat.info/tip/linux/qmailnow.htm
• https://www.hivelocity.net/kb/how-to-change-queue-lifetime-for-qmail/