[SOLVED] deleting mail from postfix mail queue after spam attack

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by Tomislav Aurednik, May 30, 2017.

  1. Hi... after a spam attack I need to clear the postfix mail queue for the address [email protected]. I tryed the command described in
    https://www.howtoforge.com/delete-mails-to-or-from-a-specific-email-address-from-postfix-mail-queue
    That didn't work I gotten a error "cannot open ‘+2’ for reading: No such file or directory".
    After that I tryed this command that I found on this forum.
    mailq | tail -n +2 | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" } / admin@change\.me$/ { print $1 }' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d -
    It run with no error but it didn't delete the mail from the queue. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.
    Does any one know the correct command?
     
  2. Found the right command
    mailq | tail -n +2 | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" }{ if ( $7 == "[email protected]" ) print $1 }' | tr -d '*!' | postsuper -d -
     
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