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title: "Purge postfix queue based on email contents"
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date: 2009-04-27
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description: How to selectively purge a postfix queue based on email contents
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tags:
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- toolbox
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---
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## The problem
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Sometimes a lot of spam can acacumulate in a postfix queue.
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## The solution
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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 :
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```sh
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find /var/spool/postfix/deferred/ -type f -exec grep -li 'XXX' '{}' \; | xargs -n1 basename | xargs -n1 postsuper -d
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```
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