My bad, I had no idea xargs and find could do that. That is extremely cool!
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The problem with that is that you're passing all the mail file paths right in
the command line. Say one path is 41 bytes (which they are on my system),
filtering 100 000 mails results in 4,1 MB of paths passed to postcat as
command line arguments, which is double the limit of my home desktop.
Tha
The problem with that is that you're passing all the mail file paths right in
the command line. Say one path is 41 bytes (which they are on my system),
filtering 100 000 mails results in 4,1 MB of paths passed to postcat as
command line arguments, which is double the limit of my home desktop.
That
A postqueue option that listed all queued mails in JSON with some envelope
information like sender IP would be amazing... If I had more free time I
would consider trying to patch it in as you suggested.
But - I think it will be much less work to write a script that feeds large
batches of queue IDs
I have already made similar scripts, but the issue is that it runs "postcat"
and "postsuper" once for every queue ID, so it becomes absolutely unusable
when needing to delete tens- or hundreds of thousands of emails.
So far I have been lucky in that most of spam scripts send mail with only a
few d
Wietse Venema wrote
> That information is already available from the Postfix maillog file.
My first attempt at solving this actually relied on going through the log
file to find the client IP, but I found out that the line containing
"client=..." was frequently missing. If I grep the log file for
Posfix keeps mails in a binary format in folders under /var/spool/postfix, at
least by default.
I want to write some tools for searching and filtering by the meta data of a
large number (hundreds of thousands) of emails under
/var/spool/postfix/deferred. Among other things, I want to find all queu
