MailRemoveAddress

The following Perl script will remove all mail in the mail queue addressed to email_address. Messages with multiple envelope recipients will not be deleted.
 * 1) !/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

if (!(defined($ARGV[0]))) { (my $basename = $0) =~ s!^.*/!!; print "Usage: $basename email_address\n"; exit 1; }
 * 1) Exit immediately if email_address was not specified as command-line argument

my $address_to_remove = lc($ARGV[0]);
 * 1) Convert email address supplied as command-line argument to lowercase

my $qtool = "/usr/local/bin/qtool.pl"; my $mqueue_directory = "/var/spool/mqueue"; my $messages_removed = 0;

use File::Find; find(\&wanted, $mqueue_directory);
 * 1) Recursively find all files and directories in $mqueue_directory

sub wanted { # Is this a qf* file? if ( /^qf\w{14}/ ) { my $QF_FILE = $_; my $envelope_recipients = 0; my $match = 1; open (QF_FILE, $_); while() { # If any of the envelope recipients contain an email address other than # $address_to_remove, do not match the message if ( /^R.*:<(.*)>$/ ) { my $recipient_address = lc($1); $envelope_recipients++; if ($recipient_address ne $address_to_remove) { $match = 0; last; }         }      }      close (QF_FILE); # $QF_FILE may not contain an envelope recipient at the time it is opened # and read. Do not match $QF_FILE in that case. if ($match == 1 && $envelope_recipients != 0) { print "Removing $QF_FILE...\n"; system "$qtool", "-d", $QF_FILE; $messages_removed++; }   } }

print "$messages_removed total message(s) removed from mail queue.\n";