How to show and empty the Postfix queue

5 Responses to How to show and empty the Postfix queue

1. Fabio Varesano says:

   June 12, 2010 at 7:43 pm

   Thanks dude! Just what I was looking for!

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2. J$B says:

   March 28, 2011 at 1:20 pm

   Hi Its helpfull but i need command to delete some particular mails from queue

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   • Matthew says:

     June 11, 2011 at 11:58 am

     type man postsuper for details…

     Delete one message with the named queue ID from the named mail queue(s) (default: hold, incoming, active and deferred).

     If a queue_id of – is specified, the program reads queue IDs from standard input. For example, to delete all mail with
     exactly one recipient user@example.com:

     mailq | tail +2 | grep -v ’^ *(’ | awk ´BEGIN { RS = “” }
     # $7=sender, $8=recipient1, $9=recipient2
     { if ($8 == “user@example.com” && $9 == “”)
     print $1 }
     ´ | tr -d ’*!’ | postsuper -d -

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     • Maski says:

       July 28, 2011 at 4:11 pm

       That wont work, script fails at +2

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3. LNeto says:

   October 18, 2011 at 2:19 pm

   Thanks dude. Works like a charm on MAMP (Mac OSX) as well.
   Saved me a lot of time.

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