Interview Questions And Answers

Q: - Which Groups and Users are required to start QMAIL Server ?

Groups :- nofiles
qmail

Users :- qmaild
alias
qmaill
qmailp
qmailq
qmailr
qmails

Submitted By:-Arun             Email-ID: - arun.san85@yahoo.com

Q: - What is the role of "qmail-send" process ?

qmail-send - deliver mail messages from the queue

Submitted By:-Arun            Email-ID: -marthaj24@gmail.com

Q: - How to check, qmail server is up or down ?

We can use qmailctl command to check the status of qmail server.

# qmailctl stat

/service/qmail-send: up (pid 30303) 187 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 30304) 187 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 30305) 187 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 30308) 187 seconds
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0

Submitted By:- Naresh            Email-ID: - naresh.kunal19@yahoo.com