Rebuild qmail service on Plesk server

As qmail service is corrupt on the server then we can reconfigure it by using the following steps but make sure that you have logged in as root user.

Stop the running mail services.

/etc/init.d/qmail stop
/etc/init.d/xinetd stop

Now take the backup for the existing qmail to ignore any data loss issue.

mv /var/qmail/queue /var/qmail/queue_old

Now check which qmail rpm we are using on the server


rpm -q psa-qmail

As soon as you confirm the installed qmail rpm, select the rpm from the following URL as per the Plesk version and server OS.

http://autoinstall.pp.parallels.com/

For example we are using the Plesk 9.0.1 and cetnOS 5.6 with 32BIT

rpm -Uvh –force http://autoinstall.pp.parallels.com/PSA_9.0.1/dist-rpm-CentOS-5-i386/opt/maildrivers/psa-qmail-1.03-cos5.build90090127.18.i586.rpm

Now restart the mails services

/etc/init.d/qmail start
/etc/init.d/xinetd start

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