[Cialug] Postfix Mail Queue

[David W. Body]

> Is there any easy to grab messages from the Postfix mail queue? For 
> example,
> I'd like to take the results frm postqueue -p and be able to view an item 
> by
> its ID. I know that the messages are in /var/spool/postfix, but how do I
> tell what queue they are in?
>

I use the following, which is from Postfix: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 
2004):

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#!/bin/sh

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
QS="deferred active incoming maildrop hold"
QPATH=`postconf -h queue_directory`

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
 echo "Usage pfcat <queue id>"
 exit 1
fi

if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then
 echo "You must be root to view queue files."
 exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d $QPATH ]; then
 echo "Cannot locate queue directory $QPATH."
 exit 1
fi

for q in $QS
do
 FILE=`find $QPATH/$q -type f -name $1`
 if [ -n "$FILE" ]; then
  postcat $FILE
  exit 0
 fi
done

if [ -z $FILE ]; then
 echo "No such queue file $1"
 exit 1
fi
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--David W. Body / Big Creek Software, LLC