Comments on: Deleting specific emails from the postfix mail queue

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 14 May 2014 06:53:19 +0000

Works for me on Ubuntu:

mailq | egrep -o “^[0-9A-F]*” | postsuper -d -

Thanks!

By: tariq

tariq — Wed, 14 May 2014 06:52:22 +0000

Cool, thanks for the feedback! You can also use ‘sed s/*//’ to filter out pesky asterisks or even grep:

mailq | grep ‘email_address’ | grep -o ‘^[^*]*’ | /usr/sbin/postsuper -d -

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 14 May 2014 06:50:57 +0000

This is awesome and just what I needed, thanks.
For reference, my mailq included an asterisk on the end of the mail id;
S3F5GAR445*
So I used the following adaptation of your script;
mailq | grep “email_address” | awk ‘{ print(substr($1,1,10)); }’ | /usr/sbin/postsuper -d -