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pfdel - deletes message containing specified address from Postfix queue. Matches either sender or recipient address.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# pfdel - deletes message containing specified address from
# Postfix queue. Matches either sender or recipient address.
#
# Usage: pfdel <email_address>
#
use strict;
# Change these paths if necessary.
my $LISTQ = "/usr/sbin/postqueue -p";
my $POSTSUPER = "/usr/sbin/postsuper";
my $email_addr = "";
my $qid = "";
my $euid = $>;
if ( @ARGV != 1 ) {
die "Usage: pfdel <email_address>\n";
} else {
$email_addr = $ARGV[0];
}
if ( $euid != 0 ) {
die "You must be root to delete queue files.\n";
}
open(QUEUE, "$LISTQ |") ||
die "Can't get pipe to $LISTQ: $!\n";
my $entry = <QUEUE>; # skip single header line
$/ = ""; # Rest of queue entries print on
# multiple lines.
while ( $entry = <QUEUE> ) {
if ( $entry =~ / $email_addr$/m ) {
($qid) = split(/\s+/, $entry, 2);
$qid =~ s/[\*\!]//;
next unless ($qid);
#
# Execute postsuper -d with the queue id.
# postsuper provides feedback when it deletes
# messages. Let its output go through.
#
if ( system($POSTSUPER, "-d", $qid) != 0 ) {
# If postsuper has a problem, bail.
die "Error executing $POSTSUPER: error " .
"code " . ($?/256) . "\n";
}
}
}
close(QUEUE);
if (! $qid ) {
die "No messages with the address <$email_addr> " .
"found in queue.\n";
}
exit 0;
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