How to Install CMQ (ConfigServer Mail Queues)?

What is CMQ (ConfigServer Mail Queues)?

It is a very useful program to see the e-mail queue on servers with cPanel installation, to see e-mail discharge and e-mail content. With this plugin, whose short name is CMQ, you can have full control over mail via WHM.

How to Install CMQ (ConfigServer Mail Queues) to Improve the Performance of Your Email Server?

In the Internet world, email is still one of the main means of communication. However, managing an email server is fraught with some challenges to effectively manage a large amount of incoming and outgoing mail. ConfigServer Mail Queues (CMQ) is a useful tool to improve the performance of your email server and simplify mail queue management. In this article, you will learn step by step how to install and configure CMQ.

Step 1: Install Required Software and update the server

Before starting the installation of CMQ, you should make sure that Perl and some CPAN modules are installed on your server. You should also install ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF), which is a dependency of CMQ. CSF is a powerful tool to increase the security of your server and supports some features of CMQ.

Step 2: Downloading and Installing CMQ

CMQ is available for free download from the ConfigServer website. Once the download is complete, upload the files to your server and extract the zip file.

wget https://download.configserver.com/cmq.tgz tar -xzf cmq.tgz cd cmq sh install.sh

The installation wizard will guide you. When the process is complete, CMQ will be successfully installed.

Step 3: Configuring CMQ

The default configuration of CMQ will usually be suitable for most situations, but you can customize it to suit your needs. By making changes to CMQ's configuration file (/etc/cmq/cmq/cmq.conf), you can adjust it to fit the requirements of your email server.

In particular, you can configure policies for mail queue management, logging level and CSF integration. You can also optimize the performance of your server by setting thresholds for mail queue management.

Step 4: Running and Monitoring CMQ

You can use the following command to start CMQ:

service cmq start

You can also check CMQ's log files (/var/log/cmq) to monitor if CMQ is running and how mail queue management is performing.

tail -f /var/log/cmq