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pmailq - Postfix Mail Queue manager

pmailq [OPTION]... [COMMAND]

pmailq --help

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.

Action to perform on selected entries.

Show (via postqueue -p) a detailed listing of the selected entries.
Show a listing of the selected entries in a machine readable format.
Delete (via postsuper -d) the selected entries.

Select entries in queue with email matching PATTERN (PATTERN accepts wildcards).
Select entries in queue with error message matching PATTERN (PATTERN accepts wildcards).
Select entries in queue with size lower than SIZE bytes.
Select entries in queue with size upper than SIZE bytes.
Select 'active' entries in queue.
Select 'on hold' entries in queue.
Show program's version number and exit.
Show this help message and exit.

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|edgar@example.com
 B0BDE146B640|Thu Aug 30|3199|1|0|paul@example.com
 B587E146B675|Wed Aug 29|3065|0|0|paul@example.com
 CF3C514656E4|Wed Aug 29|3161|0|0|abuse@example.com
      /\         /\       /\  \  \
   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]

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

Emmanuel Bouthenot <kolter@openics.org>

Copyright 2007-2011 by Emmanuel Bouthenot <kolter@openics.org>

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.