About qmHandle:

Throughout my work as a sysadmin, managing qmail's queue seemed to be something that I often found myself doing, like, for instance when a server becomes deluged in spam from a Joe-job. At work we generally use qmHandle, an excellent piece of software. It, however, doesn't have quite all of the functions that we required, so I modifed qmHandle to give the -tX "string" and -M options that are seen below. qmHandle is licensed under the GPL. (See the documentation included in the tarball for more details).

As requested, I've updated the patch and applied it to version 1.2.0, appended a release tag of 'bovine', and updated the included documentation to reflect that it is a patched version. While version 1.2.0-bovine is mostly untested, you shouldn't have any problems with it, as no real code changes were made. In any case, version 1.1.1 is still available for download.

There is a bug in the version on this page - deleting on subject will not match any messages. Please download a newer version from my project site.

Here's the usage (obtained by running w/o any args):

qmHandle v1.2.0-bovine
Copyright 1998-2003 Michele Beltrame
Patched 2004-2006 Robert McLeay

Available parameters:
  -V     : print program version
  -a     : try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running)
  -l     : list message queues
  -L     : list local message queue
  -R     : list remote message queue
  -s     : show some statistics
  -mN    : display message number N
  -dN    : delete message number N
  -Stext : delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject
  -D     : delete all messages in the queue (local and remote)
  -tX 'string': delete all messages with matching headers, where 'string' is the
                string to match and X specifies:
                  'f'  : Who the message is from,
                  't'  : Who the message is to; or,
                  's'  : What the message's subject is
  -M          : delete all msgs in the queue from
                MAILER-DAEMON@simba
Additional (optional) parameters:
  -c     : display colored output
  -N     : list message numbers only
           (to be used either with -l, -L or -R)

You can view/delete multiple message i.e. -d123 -v456 -d567

Download the patched qmHandle:

• qmHandle-1.2.0-bovine.tar.gz - Source tarball for 1.2.0
• qmHandle.gz - GZipped Source for version 1.1.1

Comments:

Subject: Thanks! Posted by Tim on 2004-10-08 17:33:04 I love the changes. Just what I needed in qmHandle. IP: Logged Subject: Thanks Posted by Danny on 2004-11-18 16:04:54 Work Great IP: Logged Subject: Congratulation!!!! Posted by Marcelo on 2005-03-24 18:41:45 Great Patch !!! IP: Logged Subject: Duvida Posted by gilberto on 2005-07-15 17:41:59 Toda vez que tento mandar um email aparece a frase is the protfix??????????????????? E so pára um email IP: Logged Subject: Parsing single quote Posted by Tim on 2006-12-06 04:47:17 How should I parse for a subject "It's me" ? I have had limited success with qmHandle -S's me' IP: Logged Subject: Single quote solution Posted by Robert on 2007-01-30 22:45:02 If you'd like to parse for "It's me", I would suggest trying: # qmHandle -S"\'s me" I'll give this a go later, and if it doesn't work, I'll come up with another patch. IP: Logged