How to view and cancel e-mails that are in q using SSH and Linux

bbrian017 · 01-28-2010, 03:56 PM

I had my website attacked and the hackers managed to send all my members spam e-mails and they even capped my daily relay of 15,000.

Apparently this was a known pligg issue!

How can I view and stop all the e-mails that might still be in q using SSH and linux

Thanks,

Brian

rweaver · 01-28-2010, 04:04 PM

What are you using as your mailer? Sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, etc?

bbrian017 · 01-28-2010, 07:48 PM

I'm using simple control panel and Postfix Mail Server

rweaver · 01-29-2010, 04:11 PM

The command line program you would use for managing your mails is postsuper. You can type 'man postsuper' to get information on the syntax for the command. To view the messages in the queue you can use 'mailq'. To delete a specific message from the mail queue you can use the command 'postsuper -d queueid' and to delete ALL messages from the queue (including any legitimate ones that might be in there with the spam) you can use 'postsuper -d ALL'

bbrian017 · 02-01-2010, 09:40 AM

Thanks rweaver postsuper -d ALL worked perfect!

My members thank you too haha!