How to install ConfigServer Mail Queues (cmq)

The product provides you with a full featured interface to the cPanel exim email queues from within WHM.

The ConfigServer Mail Queues can be an essential tool for:

  • Determining why inbound or outbound email delivery is failing
  • Deleting bounce emails
  • Deleting frozen (undeliverable) emails
  • Forcing queue runs (especially useful for Smart Router emails to Exchange servers that are intermittently online)
  • Integrates with MailScanner, if installed, to offer views/deletion of email in both the Pending and Delivery queues
  • Searching for and viewing/deleting emails to/from specific domains and addresses
  • Viewing the email history from the exim mail logs for specific emails
  • Retry delivery for specific emails

Installation

Go to /usr/local/src folder and download the cmq tar file using the below command.

wget http://www.configserver.com/free/cmq.tgz

Untar the file using the below command

tar -xzf cmq.tgz
cd into the directory created and run the install script:

cd cmq/
sh install.sh

Login to WHM and scroll to the bottom of the left hand menu and you should see “ConfigServer Mail Queues”

 

Uninstallation

Delete the below files.
rm -fv /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_cmq.cgi
rm -fv /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/cmqversion.txt
rm -Rfv /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/cmq/