Iplanet Queue Administration in Solaris

I have been working with Iplanet Mail server installed in Solaris 9. Since it is running the old version and the support for the old version has come to an end, I am contributing this basic post on queue administration.

You can access the queue prompt using the “imsimta” binary. It is present in the Iplanet installation directory.

You will receive the prompt like

To find the summary of the mail in queue, you can enter the verb “summarize” in the prompt

eg:

To check for spam mails in queue, you can use the “top” verb

If you need to delete the emails which is having a particular subject, you can use the “clean” verb

Here is an example on how to delete the mails having the subject “Delivery Notification Failed”

If the -delete option is not specified, the messages are removed from the queue, but it will be marked as HELD message. Theses messages can be reprocessed, once the messages are released.

Another case where the subject line is smaller,  you need to use the following option

When the subject line has lesser number of characters or words, you have to use “-min_length” option and the number equals to the number of characters in the subject string.

The Iplanet message queue is divided into four subqueues,

tcp_local, tcp_imss , tcp_auth, reprocess and process

If lot of messages are accumulating in a particular queue, you can delete them too, this is done using the delete verb

To check the summary,

Now the queue, tcp_local has 19 messages, to delete the whole queue, you need to do the following,

Suppose if you need to delete messages from 1 to 10, you can do it by

Be sure to execute this verb only after switching it to the corresponding queue using the “directory verb”

To Read the messages in the queue, the “read” verb can be used. Eg. you need to read message no 14 in tcp_imss queue

This will display the message headers, if you need to view its contents, you can use,