COMMANDDUMPpostfixTechnology

• SystemA is a postfix mailserver
• SystemA receives all email messages sent to @domain.com
• All @domain.com messages are forwarded to a Gmail Account remote.user@gmail.com.  (a catchall alias)
• when spammers saturate @domain.com gmail starts defering emails and the server becomes plugged waiting to forward the emails

450-4.2.1

The user you are trying to contact is receiving mail at a rate that prevents additional messages from being delivered.  Please resend your message at a later time. If the user is able to receive mail at that time, your message will be delivered.

List the email addresses that were originally sent to with the number of times each.

ServerA>for fl in `mailq|grep remote.user@gmail.com -B4| awk '$1 ~ /^[A-Z0-9]+$/{print $1}' `; do grep original_recipient "/var/spool/postfix/defer/${fl::1}/$fl" ; done|awk -F= '{print $NF}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -n

Delete from the mail queue all email messages sent to a specific user

ServerA>for fl in `mailq|grep remote.user@gmail.com -B4| awk '$1 ~ /^[A-Z0-9]+$/{print $1}'`; do grep original_recipient=honeypot@domain.com -l "/var/spool/postfix/defer/${fl::1}/$fl" ; done|awk -F/ '{print "postsuper -d "$NF}'|bash
ServerA>#OR
ServerA>grep original_recipient=original_recipient=honeypot@domain.com /var/spool/postfix/defer/ -rl|awk -F/ '{print "postsuper -d "$NF}'

Delete all mail messages from ‘Maria*’

mailq |awk '$1 ~ /^[A-Z0-9]+$/'|awk '$NF ~/^Maria/{print $0}'|awk '{print "postsuper -d "$1}'|bash