Change reception in postfix queue
After running postqueue -p i sometimes finds misspelled email-adresses,
is there a way to change the reception adress (envelop to adress) of the messages,
so it can be delivered.
exemple:
postqueue -p
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
A78C42189B1 2523 Thu Jul 25 14:53:57 [email protected]
(connect to tellia.com[141.8.224.25]:25: Connection timed out)
[email protected]
-- 2 Kbytes in 1 Request.
I want to pick upp A78C42189B1, and change the adress [email protected] to [email protected]
Solution 1:
So far i found out i can:
- using
postcat -q A78C42189B1i can get a copy of the queued item -
clean the message from meta data, the postcat messages may look like:
*** ENVELOPE RECORDS deferred/A/A78C42189B1 *** message_size: 2523 248 2 0 2523 message_arrival_time: Thu Jul 25 14:53:57 2013 create_time: Thu Jul 25 14:53:57 2013 named_attribute: rewrite_context=local sender_fullname: nobody sender: FROM:[email protected] original_recipient: [email protected] recipient: [email protected] *** MESSAGE CONTENTS deferred/A/A78C42189B1 *** mail headers... mail body... *** HEADER EXTRACTED deferred/A/A78C42189B1 *** named_attribute: notify_flags=1 original_recipient: [email protected] done_recipient: [email protected] *** MESSAGE FILE END deferred/A/A78C42189B1 ***Clean out the postfix header and footer, so only mail headers and mail body is left in the file, using a text editor, or sed.
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use sendmail to send the mail to the new reciption
sendmail [email protected] < edited_mail_file remove the original mail from the queue
postsuper -d mailID
if someone with sed-skills, can cut out the mail header and body, the 3 first steps should be able to pipe togheter
Solution 2:
Yes, your described method is working with mail stuck in the mailqueue.
Though not really an answer to your specific issue, I'd like to share what I did to (re)solve some common misspelled domain-names in the future, using your hint:
In postfix/main.cf:
recipient_canonical_maps = regexp:/etc/postfix/maps/recipient_canonical
File /etc/postfix/maps/recipient_canonical:
/^(.*@)htomail.com$/ ${1}hotmail.com
/^(.*@)homail.com$/ ${1}hotmail.com
/^(.*@)hotmai.com$/ ${1}hotmail.com
/^(.*@)hotmai.co$/ ${1}hotmail.com
/^(.*@)hotma.com$/ ${1}hotmail.com
/^(.*@)gmial.com$/ ${1}gmail.com
/^(.*@)gmail.co$/ ${1}gmail.com
/^(.*@)gmail.nl$/ ${1}gmail.com