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pmailq

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 nAX1 : 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 nAX2 : 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.

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