Delete a specific username from postfix queue

[sherif.abousamra95]

how to delete email in queue sent to a specific user?

[jimr1]

I don’t know,
you have not supplied any details about your server like this

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 22.04.3
Webmin version	2.101
Usermin version	2.001
Virtualmin version	7.8.2
Theme version	21.06
Package updates	All installed packages are up to date

[sherif.abousamra95]

Operating system: Ubuntu Linux 20.04.6
Webmin version: 2.101
Usermin version: 2.001
Virtualmin version: 7.8.2
Theme version: ( i don’t know where to find it)
Package updates: All installed packages are up to date

[jimr1]

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so do you see messages in the postfix queue ?
webmin➡servers➡postfix mail server➡mail queue

[sherif.abousamra95]

yes,

[stefan1959]

I setup a a warning of mail getting queued.

[sherif.abousamra95]

i want to know if it is possible to delete all mail queue sent to a specific email/user with a command?

[stefan1959]

I delete all the queue, it would be hard otherwise.

[jimr1]

You need the command
postsuper -d <msg id> ran as root … you can get the msg id from your queued messages

[sherif.abousamra95]

i wanted a command to delete in bulk this is why i want to delete emails sent to a specific user

that way will be faster

[jimr1]

Write a script the reeds the output from postqueue -p line by line then delete the ones you want. Just wondering why tou get queued messages . If i have a queue it normally means something is afoot

[sherif.abousamra95]

i found this command and it works

it will delete all emails in the queue sent to a specific user

postqueue -p | awk ‘BEGIN { RS = “” } /email@example.com/ { print $1 }’ | sed ‘s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g’ | while read queue_id; do postsuper -d “$queue_id”; done