====== Manage the postfix mailqueue ====== ==== Display a list of queued mail, deferred and pending ==== mailq or postqueue -p ==== View message (contents, header and body) ==== Assuming the message has the ID XXXXXXX (you can see the ID form the QUEUE) postcat -vq XXXXXXXXXX ==== Process the Queue ==== postqueue -f or postfix flush ==== Halt/Resume Queue ==== If your server has very high load and you want to temporarily move all message from the incoming queue to the hold queue, use the command: postsuper -h ALL To move the messages back to the incoming queue, use the command: postsuper -r ALL ==== Delete message(s) ==== Delete a message by message ID postsuper -d MessageID Delete all queued mail postsuper -d ALL Delete differed mail queue messages, those the system will retry later postsuper -d ALL deferred Remove emails by sender (hacked account spamming?) mailq | tail +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } { if ($7 == “spamming@example.com” && $9 == “”) print $1 } ‘ | tr -d ‘*!’ | postsuper -d - Remove emails by recipient (highly spammed account?) mailq | tail +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } { if ($8 == "spammed@example.com" && $9 == "") print $1 } ' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d - Remove emails by sender hostname mailq | grep senderhostname | awk ‘{ print $1′} | postsuper -d -