Comments on: Postfix Flush the Mail Queue

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:47:19 +0000

All scripts in this thread are gonna FAIL because the lines provided by “postqueue -p” can generate the following two lines, being the second an explanation of the first:
0EE281EAE6C 78231 Mon Jan 16 00:35:08 aaa@hotmail.com
(line including for some reason a mail from yahoo, like recipient@yahoo.com )

and if you run it against the domain .*@yahoo.com, the script is gonna delete the entry from domain aaa@hotmail.com, when it shouldn’t.

To solve it, you should have this:

  if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) {
     $queue_id = $1;
  } else {
     $queue_id = "";
  }

Instead of just this:
  if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) {
     $queue_id = $1;
  } else {
     $queue_id = "";
  }

(The mighty Ruby script will fail for the same reason, and is gonna be fixed as well with the “else” help)

By: Ali Ramzan

Ali Ramzan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:59:46 +0000

My requirement is postfix send 10emails in 1min.Whole postfix server send just 10 emails in 1min.

How can i do this ? any one help me?

By: Luigi Molinaro

Luigi Molinaro — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:30:49 +0000

Thanks fot your awesome works !

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:45:16 +0000

Cool, thanks for the script, worked just fine at my end, just change the paths in the script and that’s it.

Thanks again!

By: Kwex

Kwex — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:20:03 +0000

I use Fedora and had problems running this script. I replaced with this line

open(POSTSUPER,”|/usr/sbin/postsuper -d -”) || die “couldn’t open postsuper” ;

and it worked fine.

Thanks!

By: Patrick Matsumura

Patrick Matsumura — Fri, 27 May 2011 10:21:37 +0000

Just use mailq

By: MutluMaymun

MutluMaymun — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:23:43 +0000

Wow – do you seriously have to write a comment to insult someone after 3 years? While what you said has been said a few lines below, years ago?

By: Harvey

Harvey — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:00:05 +0000

Wow – you seriously just run any commands you find in a forum on your job’s production servers? You deserved that pink slip.

By: nxvir

nxvir — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:12:12 +0000

How to read mail in queue? I could not find that command. Like we do in
exim -Mvh id
exim -Mvb id

What is the command for postfix?

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:02:48 +0000

It’s works for me. Very nice Script VIVEK.

By: lemsx1

lemsx1 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:09:23 +0000

Some say Perl is becoming a lost art ;-) Here is my Ruby re-write (a bit more efficient. it uses practically no memory)

Save as postfix-purge-queue and run every 1 min from a cron job.

Change the path to match your own binaries. This assumes Solaris (+ blastwave) paths:

#!/opt/csw/bin/ruby
# vi: ft=ruby :
#
#  !! lemsx1 $$@$$ gmail !! com
# 2010-03-04 12:20 EST
#
# Cleans postfix mail queue on Solaris
# set debug to true when testing regex:
debug = false
regex = "example\.(com|net|org)|Host\s+or\s+domain\s+name\s+not\s+found"
IO.popen("/opt/csw/sbin/postqueue -p") do |readme|
    q_id = nil
    readme.each do |line|
        if line =~ /^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/
            q_id = $1
        end
        if q_id
            if line =~ /#{regex}/
                if debug
                    puts "matching #{q_id}"
                else
                    `/opt/csw/sbin/postsuper -d #{q_id} > /dev/null 2>&1`
                end
            q_id=nil
            end
        end
    end
end

By: salman

salman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:43:12 +0000

thanx alot alot ………………. for the script it works very very very well …… very very very well done …. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: somono

somono — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:08:02 +0000

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

mailq | tail +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk  'BEGIN { RS = "" }
              # $7=sender, $8=recipient1, $9=recipient2
               { if ($7 == "info@msn.com")
               print $1 }
              ' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d -

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:27:23 +0000

Manuel, learn to indent.

By: pd

pd — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:08:33 +0000

is there someone help me out? i need scripts to check how many emails bounced or deferred or sent?
if bounced or deferred then why? like full details message?

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:20:50 +0000

Wow This is a seriously crappy coding job. Who writes this stuff? I cleaned this up to not only make sure this was scoped correctly, but also try to have a novice perl user understand it.

#!/usr/bin/perl

my $REGEXP = shift(@ARGV) || die “no email-adress given (regexp-style, e.g. bl.*\@yahoo.com)!”;

my %Q;
my $queue_id;
my @data = `/usr/sbin/postqueue -p`;
foreach my $line (@data) {
if ($line =~ /^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) {
$queue_id = $1;
}
if($queue_id) {
if ($line =~ /$REGEXP/i) {
$Q{$queue_id} = 1;
$queue_id = “”;
}
}
}

open(POSTSUPER,”|postsuper -d -”) || die “couldn’t open postsuper” ;

foreach my $key (keys %Q) {
print POSTSUPER “$key\n”;
}
close(POSTSUPER);

Hopefully this helps.. I cannot confirm that this works, just cleaned it up so that it makes sense.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:30:26 +0000

I’ve found this code on two different blogs and have received compilation errors both times similar to:

Unmatched right curly bracket at ./delete-queue line 9, at end of line
(Might be a runaway multi-line ;; string starting on line 5)
syntax error at ./postfix-delete.pl line 9, near “}”
Execution of ./postfix-delete.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

I’m more of a PHP person so Perl’s not my thing. I know syntax is really important and I’ve double and triple checked to make sure things are correct, including composing in vi, pico and bbedit editors.
??

By: Henk

Henk — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:46:54 +0000

I think matt deserves a pink slip from his employer, because he uses commands found on random sites without even checking what the effects are!

By: vivek

vivek — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:45:56 +0000

Matt,

thanks for the heads up. It was a typo. The post has been updated

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:49:05 +0000

The command for “To remove all bounced mail from Queue, enter:” is incorrect. That command will completely delete all the contents of your Mail Queue.

When I read this I thought it would eliminate only the bounced back emails that were sitting in my queue. I was wrong. It deleted all 6,000 of the emails sitting in my queue.

If this post is any sign of the type of information provided on this website, the readers are in for a big surprise…and some pink slips from their employer..