Plesk control panel in Linux can use Postfix or Qmail as SMTP server. Here are some useful commands working with Plesk Server with Qmail SMTP Server.
Stop/Start Qmail
To start qmail use
service qmail start
To stop qmail use
service qmail stop
Log file
In pleask, qmail store logs in
/var/log/maillog
qmail-qstat
Shows mail queue status.
# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat messages in queue: 44 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 #
qmail-qread
To view mails in queue, run
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread
qmHandle
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng qmHandle v1.2.0 Copyright 1998-2003 Michele Beltrame Available parameters: -a : try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running) -l : list message queues -L : list local message queue -R : list remote message queue -T : list todo message queue -s : show some statistics -mN : display message number N -dN : delete message number N -Stext : delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject -D : delete all messages in the queue (local and remote) --clean : delete all messages in the queue (local and remote), same as -D option -V : print program version Additional (optional) parameters: -c : display colored output -N : list message numbers only (to be used either with -l, -L, -R or -T) You can view/delete multiple message i.e. -d123 -v456 -d567 #
To show qmail stats, run
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mailqueuemng -s -N Messages in local queue: 0 Messages in remote queue: 44 Messages in todo queue: 0 Messages total: 44 Messages found: 0 Timestamp: 1503307267 #
Email Storage location
/var/qmail/mailnames/DOMIN.TLD/MAILBOX-NAME
Whitelist a domain in gray list
/usr/local/psa/bin/grey_listing --update-server -whitelist add:*@some-domain.com