pmailq(8)
NAME
pmailq - Postfix MAIL Queue manager
SYNOPSIS
pmailq [OPTION]... [COMMAND] pmailq --help
DESCRIPTION
pmailq parses output of mailq command from postfix (ie: postqueue -p)
and permits to perform some actions (like removing or displaying in a
machine readable format) on a bunch of entries in queue, selected by
applying patterns on criterias like email address, error message from
smtp server, message size, mail status in queue.
COMMANDS
Action to perform on selected entries.
- list (default command)
- show 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) 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 n°1 : display all the mails in queue to "*@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 n°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 <kolter@openics.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2007 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.