Jon, we recently had a similar problem (but not exactly) and ran into a
cool python util we found on the qmail homepage:
It goes through the queue and moves the files into a filter dir, and you
can do what you want with them from there..
http://www.redwoodsoft.com/~dru/programs/mailRemove.py
You can specify a string and it will move those mails with that string.
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Jon Rust wrote:
> A user on a mailserver that we secondary for (don't get me started) has
> been mailbombed. Currently there are literally 10's of thousands of
> messages in my queue trying to deliver to him. My mail server's running
> at a oad of 8 right now. How can I clear out all these messages easily?
> They are all the same size, so I could use find to look through mess for
> the file names, then remove them from mess, info and remote. Does that
> work? Should I stop qmail-send before doing this?
>
> THanks,
> jon
>
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