iRedMail — Clear mail queue of failed emails

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (ZhangHuangbin) — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:29:09 +0000

Use "postsuper" command to remove email in Postfix queue.
You need to do some scripting to find failed emails first, then call postsuper to remove them.
Removing all with 'postsuper -d ALL' is dangerous, because it removes all queued emails, not just failed ones.

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (rukraj.pereira) — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:38:12 +0000

Kindly suggest.

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (rukraj.pereira) — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 08:01:33 +0000

We have checked failed mail reason and most of email failed due to storage quota full and due to which mailq count is increasing.

Kindly advise how to clear using cron job.

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (Cthulhu) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:13:00 +0000

That command doesn't clear failed mails, instead it deletes all mails which are in the mail queue

you can show them with command

mailq

This includes mails which were hold back due to greylisting for example, or which simply haven't been processed

running this command unattended is malcious and strongly unrecommended

if you have many failed mails, you better should check the reasons behind this

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (rukraj.pereira) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:20:30 +0000

0 3 * * * root sh /home/scripts/clear-mail-queue.sh

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (rukraj.pereira) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:18:05 +0000

thank you for the command.

we tried to create cron job using above command but its not working.

Kindly assist.

Re: Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (Pavel Zhe) — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 21:02:37 +0000

rukraj.pereira wrote:

Wanted to clear mail queue of failed emails, kindly assist how to setup using cron job.

postsuper-d ALL

Clear mail queue of failed emails

null@example.com (rukraj.pereira) — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:04:43 +0000

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Wanted to clear mail queue of failed emails, kindly assist how to setup using cron job.