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Max Muster
Asked: 2014-03-11 15:56:28 +0800 CST

what user is sending emails from mailq

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I have a debian box with postfix on it.
I checked the mailq and I do not understand how to read the mailq.
I need to know witch user is used to send this emails.

here is a example

0F87797868C     3993 Mon Mar 10 02:15:28  MAILER-DAEMON
     (connect to unknown.interbgc.com[217.9.224.233]:25: Connection timed out)
                                         [email protected]

0273E9786EF     3421 Fri Mar  7 09:13:01  MAILER-DAEMON
             (connect to mail.progys.fr[217.16.11.100]:25: Connection refused)
                                         [email protected]

I am not sure but I suppose that this are bounces from spam emails.
How can I verify this.

linux

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use postcat to 'cat out' the message body and headers. From the postcat(1) manpage:

    SYNOPSIS
       postcat [-bdehnoqv] [-c config_dir] [files...]

DESCRIPTION
       The postcat(1) command prints the contents of the named files in human-
       readable form.

    I see a good blog article here: http://www.buildcube.com/tech_blog/tag/postcat/

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