---
name: "qmhandle"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "qmhandle"
version: "1.3.2-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/qmhandle"
---

# qmhandle(1)

tool to manage the qmail message queue

## NAME

qmhandle - tool to manage the qmail message queue

## SYNOPSIS

**qmhandle \[--help\] \[--version\]**

## DESCRIPTION

qmHandle is a tool which can be used to manage the qmail message queue. It's written in Perl (so fully customizable) and has more features than qmail-qread and qmail-qstat.

## OPTIONS

- **-a**

  try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running)

- **-l**

  list message queues

- **-L**

  list local message queue

- **-R**

  list remote message queue

- **-s**

  show some statistics

- **-mN**

  display message number N

- **-dN**

  delete message number N

- **-fsender**

  delete message from sender

- **-f're**

  delete message from senders matching regular expression re

- **-Stext**

  delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject

- **-h're'**

  delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case insensitive)

- **-b're'**

  delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case insensitive)

- **-H're'**

  delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case sensitive)

- **-B're'**

  delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case sensitive)

- **-t're'**

  flag messages with recipients in regular expression 're' for earlier retry (note: this lengthens the time message can stay in queue)

- **-D**

  delete all messages in the queue (local and remote)

- **-V**

  print program version

- **-c**

  display colored output

- **-N**

  list message numbers only

## AUTHORS

Marcela Tiznado \<mlt@debian.org\>