imta queue

The imta queue command is used to perform common maintenance tasks on the IMTA message queues. Unlike the imta cache utility, operations performed with imta queue apply not only to the queue cache database but also to the actual message queues (message files).

Syntax

imta queue -recover_crash | -retry_delivery channel_name

The options for this command are:

-recover_crash	imta -recover_crash rebuilds the IMTA queue-cache database after a crash.
-retry_delivery channel_name	imta queue -retry_delivery reprocesses the HELD messages in the channel specified by the channel_name parameter. In order to avoid mail loops, the IMTA holds messages when they have been forwarded more than 30 times. When the reason for the mail loop has been detected and corrected, the administrator can run this command to reprocess all the HELD messages.