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pmailq

PMAILQ(8)																 PMAILQ(8)

NAME

       pmailq - Postfix MAIL Queue manager

SYNOPSIS

       pmailq [OPTION]... [COMMAND]

       pmailq --help

DESCRIPTION

       pmailq parses the output of mailq command from postfix (ie: postqueue -p).  It permits to perform some actions on a group of entries in
       queue (like removing or displaying them in a machine readable format). They are selected by applying filters (wildcards are allowed) on
       criterias like email address, error message from SMTP server, message size, mail status in queue.

COMMANDS

       Action to perform on selected entries.

       list (default command)
	 Show a detailed listing of the selected entries.

       parse
	 Show a listing of the selected entries in a machine readable format.

       del
	 Delete (via postsuper -d) the selected entries.

OPTIONS

       -e PATTERN, --email=PATTERN
	 Select entries in queue with email matching PATTERN (PATTERN accepts wildcards).

       -m PATTERN, --msg=PATTERN
	 Select entries in queue with error message matching PATTERN (PATTERN accepts wildcards).

       -l SIZE, --size-lower=SIZE
	 Select entries in queue with size lower than SIZE bytes.

       -u SIZE, --size-upper=SIZE
	 Select entries in queue with size upper than SIZE bytes.

       -a
	 Select 'active' entries in queue.

       -o
	 Select 'on hold' entries in queue.

       --version
	 Show program's version number and exit.

       -h, --help
	 Show this help message and exit.

EXAMPLES

	Example 1: display all the entries in queue sent to an email address matching "*@example.com*" with a size between 3000 and 3200 bytes in
	a machine readable format:

	 # pmailq -u 3000 -l 3200 -e "*@example.com" parse

	 7E75214643A4|Fri Aug 31|3154|1|0|edgar@example.com
	 B0BDE146B640|Thu Aug 30|3199|1|0|paul@example.com
	 B587E146B675|Wed Aug 29|3065|0|0|paul@example.com
	 CF3C514656E4|Wed Aug 29|3161|0|0|abuse@example.com
	      /	 /	  /    
	   queue id	date	 size     on hold (or not)
					 active (or not)

	Example 2: remove all mails in queue not sent because of a connection time out:

	 # pmailq -m "*connection*timed*out" del

	 deleting 00CF514616D3 [OK]
	 deleting 12D911461924 [OK]
	 deleting 269EF1461CA9 [OK]
	 deleting 288DF1461CA0 [OK]
	 deleting 3B3901460F62 [OK]
	 deleting 3AE58147019F [OK]

SEE ALSO

       postsuper(1) privileged queue operations, postqueue(1) mail queue control

AUTHOR

       Emmanuel Bouthenot <kolter@openics.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2007-2011 by Emmanuel Bouthenot <kolter@openics.org>

       This program is released under the "do What The Fuck you want to Public Licence" Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar.

       See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.

								    2011-01-05								 PMAILQ(8)