Help! Need to delete outgoing mail queue

[tattwam]

Hello All
This is my first post in this forum.

I am having issue with OS X Server 5.1
There are Thousands of mails in mail queue due to some spam agent.
I have got one command line from Apple discussions :

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin//postsuper -d ALL

But I am not sure it will work.
Need urgent help.

 

[HenryAZ]

Hello All
This is my first post in this forum.

I am having issue with OS X Server 5.1
There are Thousands of mails in mail queue due to some spam agent.
I have got one command line from Apple discussions :

sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin//postsuper -d ALL

But I am not sure it will work.
Need urgent help.

postsuper will work fine, but you don't need that long command line. postsuper is in /usr/sbin, which is in your PATH, so simply:
sudo postsuper -d ALL (ALL has to be uppercase).

If you want to try it first on a single message, run mailq, which will scroll all of those queued messages across the screen. Copy the Queue ID of the last message off the screen, and enter:
sudo postsuper -d queue_id
then run mailq again, and that last message should be gone.

Before deleting the entire queue, make sure you don't have any legitimate pending mail.