Mails stuck in preprocess after queue repair

Good Morning,

I need some help to understand and troubleshoot my situation and hope
somebody can provide some insight.

Situation: I used "qmHandle" to delete messages from the queue after
been hit by a spam wave. The script had problems to terminate qmail so I
used "killall qmail-remote" to assist. After cleaning the queue I used
"svc -d/-u" on qmail-smtpd and qmail-send to restart the services.

Even if I can see both process running, the incoming messages end up in
the "preprocess" queue and never get further. What process is
responsible for handling those messages and how can I restart it? The
only thing that helped now was a restart of the full server...

best regards

Oliver

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