Outbound and Inbound mail on same server

[Tony Finch]

Randy Herban <RHerban at GRAMTEL.NET> wrote:
>

I feel honour-bound to do a bit of advocacy...

>Quick shell script to delete all mailq items from a certain domain (say,
>used to spam messages).

exim -bpr |
        sed -e '/^[ 0-9][0-9].\{8\}\(.\{16\}\) <.*@domain>$/!d;s//\1/' |
        xargs exim -Mrm

>Easy way to count/sort the items in mailq to determine which domains have
>the most in queue.

exim -bpr |
        sed -e '/^[ 0-9][0-9].\{8\}.\{16\} <.*@\([^@]*\)>$/!d;s//\1/' |
        sort | uniq -c | sort -n

(yes, that sed bit could be made easier)

>Process all mail in queue destined/from a certain domain.

exim -qR domain

Tony.
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