Delete emails from email queue in PLESK

Published: 13 years ago

The GUI for PLESK's CMS is quite limited when you want to delete a large number of emails in one batch without crashing the website.

Through a linux command line you can filter and delete messages by either their email address, subject, from or to targets.

How to use qmHandle

qmHandle -h

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Available parameters:
  -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
  -fsender : delete message from sender
  -f're'   : delete message from senders matching regular expression re
  -Stext   : delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject
  -h're'   : delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case insensitive)
  -b're'   : delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case insensitive)
  -H're'   : delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case sensitive)
  -B're'   : delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case sensitive)
  -t're'   : flag messages with recipients in regular expression 're' for earlier retry
  -D       : delete all messages in the queue (local and remote)
  -V       : print program version

Additional (optional) parameters:
  -c       : display colored output
  -N       : list message numbers only
           (to be used either with -l, -L or -R)

Filter & Delete By Subject

qmHandle -S"Subject of Emails"

qmHandle Not installed?

There's a really helpful quick article about how to get this program working on your linux server - Support Facility Blog