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pmailq(8)

Postfix Mail Queue manager

NAME

pmailq - Postfix Mail Queue manager

SYNOPSIS

pmailq [OPTION]... [COMMAND]

pmailq --help

DESCRIPTION

pmailq processes the output of the Postfix mailq command, and can list, parse (machine-readably), or delete queued messages in batches.

They can be selected by size, by queue status, and by pattern matching (with wildcards) on recipient addresses and server error messages.

COMMANDS

Action to perform on selected entries.

list (default command)

Show (via postqueue -p) a detailed listing of the selected entries.

parse

Show a listing of the selected entries in a machine readable format.

del

Delete (via postsuper -d) the selected entries.

OPTIONS

-e PATTERN, --email=PATTERN

Select entries in queue with email matching PATTERN (PATTERN accepts wildcards).

-m PATTERN, --msg=PATTERN

Select entries in queue with error message matching PATTERN (PATTERN accepts wildcards).

-l SIZE, --size-lower=SIZE

Select entries in queue with size lower than SIZE bytes.

-u SIZE, --size-upper=SIZE

Select entries in queue with size upper than SIZE bytes.

-a

Select 'active' entries in queue.

-o

Select 'on hold' entries in queue.

--version

Show program's version number and exit.

-h, --help

Show this help message and exit.

EXAMPLES

Example 1: display all the entries in queue sent to an email address matching "*@example.com*" with a size between 3000 and 3200 bytes in a machine readable format:

 # pmailq -u 3000 -l 3200 -e "*@example.com" parse
 7E75214643A4|Fri Aug 31|3154|1|0|[email protected]
 B0BDE146B640|Thu Aug 30|3199|1|0|[email protected]
 B587E146B675|Wed Aug 29|3065|0|0|[email protected]
 CF3C514656E4|Wed Aug 29|3161|0|0|[email protected]
      /\         /\       /\  \  \
   queue id     date     size  \  \ on hold (or not)
                                \ active (or not)

Example 2: remove all mails in queue not sent because of a connection time out:

 # pmailq -m "*connection*timed*out" del
 deleting 00CF514616D3 [OK]
 deleting 12D911461924 [OK]
 deleting 269EF1461CA9 [OK]
 deleting 288DF1461CA0 [OK]
 deleting 3B3901460F62 [OK]
 deleting 3AE58147019F [OK]

SEE ALSO

postsuper(1) privileged queue operations, postqueue(1) mail queue control

AUTHOR

Emmanuel Bouthenot <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007-2011 by Emmanuel Bouthenot <[email protected]>

This program is released under the "do What The Fuck you want to Public Licence" Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar.

See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.

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