Purge postfix queue based on email contents

2009-04-27 - How to selectively purge a postfix queue based on email contents
Tag: toolbox

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