How to unbury your postfix mail queue from a mail bomb

Posted in network, note-to-self, rants | Monday, March 31st, 2008 | No Comments » Trackback

At work, our little old mail server was getting buried by some frigtard sending thousands of messages to an unused alias. Here’s how we extracted the bad messages and freed up the mail queue.

First, see where all the mail is coming from:

# postqueue -p

Now, loop over those messages, looking for that person’s mail:

foreach mid (`postqueue -p | grep frigtard@frigtards.com | gawk '{print $1}'`)
  postsuper -d "$mid"
end

Yeah, I use csh. So what?

Pardon the grumpy tone of this post. But I’m grumpy, if you can imagine why.

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