Postfix commands

View the postfix version :
#  postconf  mail_version
mail_version = 2.3.3

Check the postfix installation :
#  postfix check

Show default postfix values :
#  postconf -d

To show non default postfix values :
#  postconf -n

To restart postfix mail server  :

# postfix reload

Flush the mail queue :
#  postfix  flush
Or you can use:
#  postfix  -f

To see mail queue :
#  mailq
( in send mail sendmail -bp )
#  mailq | wc -l
(will give the total no of mails in queue )

To remove all mail from the queue :
#  postsuper -d ALL

To remove all mails in the deferred queue :
#  postsuper -d ALL deferred

To see the mails in a tree structure :
#  qshape

View the mail content :
#  postcat -q  AFD4A228 37C

You will get the above id from mailq . Or you can view the mails from postfix mail spool. Usually postfix will store the mails in /var/spool/postfix/active/ from this location also you can view the mails .  We can change the queue directory from the postfix conf.

Sort by from address :

#  mailq | awk ‘/^[0-9,A-F]/ {print $7}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

To remove all mails sent by user@adminlogs.info from the queue :

#  mailq| grep ‘^[A-Z0-9]‘|grep user@adminlogs.info|cut -f1 -d’ ‘ |tr -d \*|postsuper -d -

To remove all mails being sent using the From address “user@adminlogs.info” :

#  mailq | awk ‘/^[0-9,A-F].*user@adminlogs.info / {print $1}’ | cut -d ‘!’ -f 1 | postsuper -d -

To remove all mails sent by the domain adminlogs.info from the queue :

#  mailq| grep ‘^[A-Z0-9]‘|grep @adminlogs.info|cut -f1 -d’ ‘ |tr -d \*|postsuper -d -