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postfix queue clearing…

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first – you want to get the postfix-delete.pl script from here:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-flush-mail-queue.html

Next – create a script to inspect the mailq and then a single message – finally, ask if the message should be deleted – very linear script..

#!/bin/sh

cd /var/spool/postfix/deferred/;
MAILQCHECK=`mailq`;
if [ "$MAILQCHECK" = "Mail queue is empty" ]
then
   echo $MAILQCHECK;
   exit 0;
fi

##
## if we get here, the mailq is not empty...
##
echo $MAILQCHECK | more;

echo 'Enter mail ID to inspect:';
read MAILID;

if [ "$MAILID" != "" ]
then
   strings */$MAILID | more;
   echo 'Delete?'
   read SHALLIDELETE;
   SHALLIDELETE=`echo $SHALLIDELETE| tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`; export SHALLIDELETE;
   if [ "$SHALLIDELETE" = "Y" ]
   then
##
## get the postfix-delete.pl from http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-flush-mail-queue.html
##
     /root/postfix-delete.pl $MAILID ;
     exit 0;
   else
      echo 'exiting without delete...';
      exit 0;
   fi
else
##
## they didn't enter an ID - exit
##
  echo 'exiting...';
  exit 0;
fi