delete from the mailq

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On 12/17/05, Jan Agermose <ja at conviator.com> wrote:

      Does anyone have a script or something to delete mails in
      queue based on a regex? Or passing a mail address as sender
      or receiver address?

This is from http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/deleting_mail_queue.html, I
use it myself. He has some more advanced stuff to but this one works
great.

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z $@ ] ; then
   echo "Usage: $0 email_address"
   exit 1
fi

for i in `(cd /var/spool/mqueue; grep -l "To:.*$1" qf* | cut -c3-)`
do
   mv /var/spool/mqueue/*$i /tmp/mqueue
done

/Peter

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