Postfix Mail Queue Manager
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Description
This PHP script shows the content of the mail queues of multiple servers and give you the possibility to hold, release, delete and reqeue single messages.
If you install a tiny wrapper script on mail servers, you may even remove or requeue multiple messages from a certain sender.
In addition, you can also requeue all messages (
sendmail -q
).
Download
Download the
gzip'ped tar archivePrerequisites:
On a web- or intranet accessible host (access protection highly recommended!):
- Web Server with PHP script language support (
shell_exec
function has to be enabled)
- Key-based SSH access to mail servers for webserver user
On mail servers:
- Postfix
- sudo
Installation
Unpack the archive beneath a webserver document root
Adapt the variables $mailservers and $user to your needs, if you like to use the selection by sender e-mail address feature, configure also variable $wrapper_cmd
Add the following lines to
/etc/sudoers
on the mail server(s), assuming user
admin
for login to the mail server(s) (change it to your needs):
admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/postsuper
admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/postqueue
admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/mailqueue.sh
(last line only needed for selection by sender address)
If you want to use the selection by e-mail address feature, put mailqueue.sh to some path on the mail server(s) and make it executable, e.g.:
cp mailqueue.sh /usr/local/bin/mailqueue.sh
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mailqueue.sh
Try it out using
http://yourwebserver/mailqmgr/index.php