queue_repair For Linux

queue_repair is a toolkit for dealing with the qmail queue directory structure; it can create a new queue, move and properly rename a queue, dynamically change the conf-split value, convert big-todo queues to non-big-todo and vice versa, and repair a corrupted queue.

Requirements:

� Python version 1.5.2 or above. I strongly recommend the use of either version 1.5.2 or 2.x. Avoid version 1.6, as it was never intended for widespread use and was not tested particularly well. � qmail. If you're not running qmail, you don't need queue-repair.

Unpack the tarball:

tar xzf queue-repair-version.tar.gz

Copy the contents to a suitable location:

mkdir /usr/local/lib/queue-repair cp -a queue-repair-version/* /usr/local/lib/queue-repair/

You can install getmail in your home directory or elsewhere if you prefer.

Change into the directory you installed queue-repair in, or ensure that directory is in your path.

Stop qmail-send. Running queue-repair on a live queue could give erroneous information in test-only mode, and will seriously confuse qmail in repair mode.

Run queue_repair.py with the options you choose, documented below.

Basic usage information:

queue_repair.py [options] [conf-qmail]

conf-qmail defaults to /var/qmail/.

Restart qmail.

What's New in This Release:

� many cleanups to the code � mode of todo files was wrong in some cases when ext-todo was in use or big-todo not in use; thanks to Thomas Palmieri and David Gartner for their reports that helped me track this down.