Introduction
The service qmail
postfix
is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on your DV serverDV server.
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Requirements
Before you start, this article has the following dependencies:
- You must have SSH access set up for root or a sudo user.
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Instructions
Rebuilding your mail configuration can be done with the Plesk mchk
utility using the command below.
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk
An alias also exists to run this as a single command.
mchk
Synopsis:
mchk [OPTION]
--without-spam - restore all settings except for SpamAssassin configuration
--with-spam - restore all settings
--spam-only - restore only SpamAssassin settings
This utility rebuilds in line with Plesk database Qmail control files in the /var/qmail/control
, /var/qmail/users
directories and mail users' settings. Also, it sets proper ownership/permissions for all mailboxes (/var/qmail/mailnames/*).
Example:
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mchk --with-spam
Example output:
==> Checking for: mailsrv_conf_init... ok
==> Checking for: mail_handlers_init... ok
==> Checking for: mailsrv_entities_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_admin_aliases... ok
==> Checking for: mail_auth_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mailman_lists_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_kav8_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_responder_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_spam_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_grey_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_mailbox_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_spf_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_dk_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_drweb_restore... not exists
==> Checking for: mailsrv_conf_init... ok
==> Checking for: mail_handlers_init... ok
==> Checking for: mailsrv_entities_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_admin_aliases... ok
==> Checking for: mail_auth_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mailman_lists_dump... ok
==> Checking for: mail_kav8_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_responder_restore... ok
==> Checking for: vhostidmng... ok
==> Checking for: mail_postfix_transport_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_spam_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_grey_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_mailbox_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_spf_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_dk_restore... ok
==> Checking for: mail_drweb_restore... not exists