Messages on the Scalix Local Delivery Queue = 19807

[BoiseComputerService]

I had an issue with sendmail being open twice (Had started sendmail under Webmin control panel which was overriding the sendmail of Scalix so I was receiving tons of unwanted spam trying to use me as a relay. As a result I have around 20,000 e-mails which are sitting in the Local Delivery Queue that won't go away. I have been deleting them as they have been funneling into the admin account as errors.. Is there anything that I can do to manually clear out this Queue? I don't seem to find any commands to do this.. Only clear out accounts.. Thank you for any help you will be able to provide.

[burhankhalid]

You can clear the queue from SAC by clicking on Server Info, then the Local Delivery queue and then deleting the messages there.

I have only had one instance of the LD queue having any messages (this was when a message store got corrupt) so for me its always a big alarm when the LD queue gets backed up. I normally don't see any messages in there at all. You might want to check /var/log/maillog (or equivalent) to see if there is something else that's going on.

From the command line, you can use the omqdump command. It is password protected, but there was a thread in the forums that showed how to calculate the password (I forget the exact thread, but you should be able to pull it up with a search). This is an advanced tool, so be careful before you start deleting messages using it :)

Hope this helps.

[BoiseComputerService]

I have gotten it corrected. I use webmin along with my servers and when I started the sendmail server using that and I guess it is a different executable it is running. It caused my system to receive mail from all sorts of people. I found that scalix was not the server receiving communication from port 25. Stopped the second instance, deleted all of the e-mails, and all is well.