Deleting Messages

Deleting Individual Messages

To delete an individual message from the mail queue follow these steps:

Step 1) Display the contents of the queue

mailq

Step 2) Identify the message and "Queue ID"
The list should look something like this

-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
C017B1A942     2328 Tue Feb 27 03:54:01  root
                                         root

BCD0B1A93A      333 Tue Feb 27 05:22:02  root
                                         root

259D91A955      272 Thu Mar  8 02:17:11  root
                                         root 

8ED5119EB1      333 Wed Mar  7 09:36:49  root
                                         root

Step 3) Delete the message

postsuper -d <queue_id>

Deleting All Messages

To delete all messages in the mail queue run this command:

postsuper -d ALL