Delete Deferred Mails from a specific user on PMG 8.2

[rrocha]

Hi there.

One of our users was kind enough to provide her user/pass to a hacker, and we got about 500 emails in the deferred mail queue.
How do I delete all these e-mails from her? The threads about this procedure are all old and the commands are not working.

Thanks in advance

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

which threads are you referring to?

in general for selective deletion of postfix queue - I can recommend combining `postqueue -j` (JSON-output) with a `jq` filter e.g.:

postqueue -j |jq -r 'select( .sender == "address@of.hacked.sender" )|.queue_id'

check the outputs before and make sure that it only contains the mails you want to delete - as this process cannot be reverted!

then you can pipe this to `postsuper -d -` to delete the selected mails

I hope this helps!

 

[rrocha]

This code is supposed to be entered in the linux machine? there I get -bash: jq: command not found

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

jq: command not found

then you need to install jq - `apt install jq`

 

[rrocha]

Ah, perfect. it works now.

Then the id shown by the queue_id query is what I must delete using the postsuper -d -XXXXYYZZZ command, correct?