From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 07:56:56 CDT

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Ralf Hildebrandt:
> I can't, for the life of it, find the little script that allows me to
> delete mails from the queue, based on the queuefile's content.
>
> Care to share?

First, make sure that your pattern expression is good:

find /var/spool/postfix/whatever -type f -print | while read name
do
    postcat $name | grep 'pattern' | sed "s;^;$name:;"
done

Once you're satisfied that your pattern is good,

find /var/spool/postfix/whatever -type f -print | while read name
do
    postcat $name | (grep -q 'pattern' && echo $name)
done | xargs rm

If this is a busy system, you may want to rename the bad files to
the hold queue first:

find /var/spool/postfix/whatever -type f -print | while read name
do
    postcat $name | (grep -q 'pattern' && mv $name /var/spool/postfix/hold)
done

        Wietse

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