Postfix Flush the Mail Queue
Traditionally you use the "sendmail -q" command to flush mail queue under Sendmail MTA. Under Postfix MTA, just enter the following command to flush the mail queue:# postfix flush
OR# postfix -f
To see mail queue, enter:# mailq
To remove all mail from the queue, enter:# postsuper -d ALL
To remove all mails in the deferred queue, enter:# postsuper -d ALL deferred
postfix-delete.pl script
Following script deletes all mail from the mailq which matches the regular expression specified as the first argument (Credit: ??? - I found it on old good newsgroup)
#!/usr/bin/perl $REGEXP = shift || die "no email-adress given (regexp-style, e.g. bl.*\@yahoo.com)!"; @data = qx; for (@data) { if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) { $queue_id = $1; } if($queue_id) { if (/$REGEXP/i) { $Q{$queue_id} = 1; $queue_id = ""; } } } #open(POSTSUPER,"|cat") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ; open(POSTSUPER,"|postsuper -d -") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ; foreach (keys %Q) { print POSTSUPER "$_\n"; }; close(POSTSUPER);
For example, delete all queued messages from or to the domain called fackspamdomain.com, enter:./postfix-delete.pl fackspamdomain.com
Delete all queued messages that contain the word "xyz" in the e-mail address:./postfix-delete.pl xyz
