From: Jamie C. <jca...@we...> - 2003-01-02 11:04:36
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Thanks for the info .. that was the missing piece of the puzzle :) - Jamie Bill James wrote: > Jamie, > > The response from Wietse is: > > The postcat command knows the format. It's the basic Postfix command > to dump queue file contents. > > The queue file pathname depends on the queue name (not available > with the mailq command) and on the queue directory hashing depth > (available from "postconf"). > > Wietse > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...> > To: <web...@li...> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 8:14 PM > Subject: Re: A Postfix Idea > > > >>I've just added most of this feature, but ran into a little problem - > > there is > >>no way to view the contents of messages in the queue, because they are > > stored in > >>files that use some unknown binary format :( Do any postfix gurus on the > > list > >>know where the format for files in /var/spool/postfix, or a program that > > can > >>display queued messages? >> >> - Jamie >> >>Bill James wrote: >> >>>Cool... >>> >>>HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone >>> >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...> >>>To: <web...@li...> >>>Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:08 AM >>>Subject: Re: A Postfix Idea >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Bill James wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Jamie, >>>>> >>>>>I use Postfix quite extensively on several different platforms and I >>>> > was > >>>>>wondering if it is possible to code in a way to look at the email(s) >>>>>sitting in the mail queue and delete them. I use mailq which works just >>>>>fine and postsuper -d to delete if need be but something added to the >>>>>Postfix module would be nice. >>>>> >>>>>The Sendmail module has this ability and only uses one queue directory >>>>>but Postfix uses several directories depending on the status of a given >>>>>mail. >>>>> >>>>>I would do it myself but my coding abilities leave allot to be desired. >>>>> >>>>>It would need a way to specify where the mailq program resides and also >>>>>the mail queue itself since both are in different places on different >>>>>platforms depending on if it was installed using rpm, FreeBSD package >>>> > or > >>>>>Debian Package, blah, blah blah >>>>> >>>>>Just a thought..... >>>> >>>>Nice idea .. the other mail server modules have such a feature, so why >>> > not > >>>>postfix? I'll try to add it for the next release .. >>>> >>>> - Jamie |