Wednesday, December 22, 2021

opensmtpd remove messages from/to specified mailbox?

Hello misc! How do you clean messages for one mailbox?

for example, i have this in my queue:

2cce379a666925bc|local|mta|auth|@|info@administrator.com|info@administrator.com|1640178598|1640178598|1640178598|0|inflight|24|
3c712effebd6fe5a|local|mta|auth|@|bounce-860-17875544-860-248@yplinyi02.cn|bounce-860-17875544-860-248@yplinyi02.cn|1640140496|1640140496|0|10|pending|1874|Network
error on destination MXs
90f946248731d1d9|local|mta|auth|@|info@administrator.com|info@administrator.com|1640178200|1640178200|1640178600|1|inflight|22|Network
error on destination MXs
98eb22222ef2094f|local|mta|auth|@|info@administrator.com|info@administrator.com|1640177337|1640177337|0|2|pending|315|Network
error on destination MXs

now i want to remove all messages from @administrator.com.

this is how it can be done:

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for i in `doas smtpctl show queue | grep administrator.com | awk -F "|"
'{print $1}'`

doas smtpctl remove $i

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It works, but the whole concept is just scary! Usually i try to avoid
such bulky constructions.

Maybe I missed something, and it can be made easier ?

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