To flush queue

Traditionally you use the “sendmail -q” command to flush mail queue under Sendmail MTA. Under Postfix MTA, just enter the following command to flush the mail queue:

# postfix flush

OR

# postfix -f

To see mail queue, enter:

# mailq

To remove all mail from the queue, enter:

# postsuper -d ALL

To remove all mails in the deferred queue, enter:

# postsuper -d ALL deferred

postfix-delete.pl script

Following script deletes all mail from the mailq which matches the regular expression specified as the first argument (Credit: ??? – I found it on old good newsgroup)

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
$REGEXP = shift || die "no email-adress given (regexp-style, e.g. bl.*\@yahoo.com)!";
 
@data = qx</usr/sbin/postqueue -p>;
for (@data) {
  if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) {
     $queue_id = $1;
  }
  if($queue_id) {
    if (/$REGEXP/i) {
      $Q{$queue_id} = 1;
      $queue_id = "";
    }
  }
}
 
#open(POSTSUPER,"|cat") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ;
open(POSTSUPER,"|postsuper -d -") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ;
 
foreach (keys %Q) {
  print POSTSUPER "$_\n";
};
close(POSTSUPER);

For example, delete all queued messages from or to the domain called fackspamdomain.com, enter:

./postfix-delete.pl fackspamdomain.com

Delete all queued messages that contain the word “xyz” in the e-mail address:

./postfix-delete.pl xyz