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| title | date | description | tags | |
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| Purge postfix queue based on email contents | 2009-04-27 | How to selectively purge a postfix queue based on email contents |
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The problem
Sometimes a lot of spam can acacumulate in a postfix queue.
The solution
Here is a command that can search through queued emails for a certain character string (here XXX as an example) and delete the ones that contain it :
find /var/spool/postfix/deferred/ -type f -exec grep -li 'XXX' '{}' \; | xargs -n1 basename | xargs -n1 postsuper -d