Issue Remove Qmail

[KAEL]

Server operating system version

ubuntu 24.02

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.70-2

removing qmail didn't uninstall all files:

The permissions on some of the files packaged by Plesk are incorrect[ERROR]
- WARNING: Group 'nofiles' not found. Skipping.
WARNING: Group 'nofiles' not found. Skipping.
WARNING: Group 'qmail' not found. Skipping.
WARNING: Group 'qmail' not found. Skipping.
WARNING: Group 'qmail' not found. Skipping.
WARNING: Group 'qmail' not found. Skipping.
Incorrect group of /var/lib/plesk/mail/auth. Expected: nofiles
(). Actual: 2020 (2020).
Incorrect group of /var/lib/plesk/mail/poplock. Expected:
nofiles (). Actual: 2020 (2020).
Incorrect group of /var/qmail/control. Expected: qmail ().
Actual: root (0).
The file /var/qmail/mailnames/.quotawarnmsg was not found.
The file /var/qmail/popuser was not found.
Incorrect group of /var/qmail/alias. Expected: qmail ().
Actual: 2520 (2520).
Incorrect group of /var/qmail/boot. Expected: qmail (). Actual:
2520 (2520).
The file /var/qmail/boot/binm1 was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/binm1+df was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/binm2 was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/binm2+df was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/binm3 was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/binm3+df was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/home was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/home+df was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/proc was not found.
The file /var/qmail/boot/proc+df was not found.
Incorrect group of /var/qmail/users. Expected: qmail ().
Actual: 2520 (2520).

Repair incorecct permissions didn't work. Install and uninstall show the same result

 

[sys616]

see this

Before doing any thing related to qmail queue you need to stop the qmail service using the following command

#/etc/init.d/qmail stop

To delete mails from Que,

#qmail-remove -r -p

# qmail-remove -r -p gtre.ac.net
324001: yes

moved mess/0/324001 to yanked/324001.mess

moved remote/0/324001 to yanked/324001.remote

moved info/0/324001 to yanked/324001.info
324024: yes

moved mess/0/324024 to yanked/324024.mess

moved remote/0/324024 to yanked/324024.remote

moved info/0/324024 to yanked/324024.info

This will remove all emails in que with .gtre.ac.net. in it and place it in /var/qmail/queue/yanked folder.

QMAIL-REMOVE installation

QMAIL-REMOVE installation. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

 

[KAEL]

That didn't work. I have already repair the plek installation - no errors. But repair fs -verbose show still the same errors.

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

@KAEL , I was able to replicate the behavior and I am currently consulting with our team about this case. I will follow up with more details.

 

[KAEL]

thank you for the quick answer/support

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

@KAEL We have an existing bug with id PPPM-14983 and our team is currently working on it. I cannot provide an exact ETA at this point, but I believe the fix will be released relatively soon. You can monitor the changelog here. In the meantime, the workaround we can suggest is running:

dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ { print $2 }')

That will purge the leftover packages.

 

[rgfincher]

When you say 'removing qmail', do you mean replacing it with postfix? I wasn't aware that it was possible to completely remove all MTAs from a Plesk install. My understanding was that you must either have qmail or postfix installed?

 

[KAEL]

Replacing qmail with postfix produces the error

 

[rgfincher]

Using this method?

 

[KAEL]

yes