Postfix mailq search

robert — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:21:02 +0000

I couldn’t find a script to search the Postfix mail queue so I wrote one. It’s a bash script and can be downloaded here (or just copy and paste it to file of your choice). I call it ssubject.sh. It ends up just spitting out the queue id’s of messages that match. Usage: “ssubject.sh “some words to look for”

#!/bin/bash
SUBJECT=$1
/usr/sbin/postqueue -p | awk {'print $1'} | grep -v (host | \\
grep -v @ | grep -v (delivery | grep -v (Host | grep -v (connect | \\
grep -v (lost | grep -v (conversation | grep -v -Queue | \\
sed 's/*//g' | sed '/^$/d' > /tmp/queue_ids.txt
cat /tmp/queue_ids.txt | while read line; do
sudo /usr/sbin/postcat -q ${line}|> | grep "$SUBJECT" > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
echo ${line}|> ;
fi
done

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