how clean postfix queue?

[maumar]

i have postfix queue full, as u can ses:

$ mailq
[snipped]
-- 7290 Kbytes in 2551 Requests.

i have an handy script of one line that i use in my postfix servers to clean the queue, here it is:

 cat clean_queue
mailq | tail -n +2 | grep -v '^ *(' | awk  'BEGIN { RS = "" } { if ($7 == "'$1'" ) print $1 } ' | tr -d '*!'| postsuper -d -

i need superuser privilges to run it and i need to be su as zimbra user to have his env

thsi is what i get:

su - zimbra

cd log/my_script
./clean_queue root@this.domain.it
postsuper: fatal: use of this command is reserved for the superuser

how can i recode the small script to overcome thsi issue?

tia

-m

[phoenix]

Why not put 'sudo' in front of the word 'postsuper' in your one line script?

I think the questions to ask are: which queue is full and why is the queue full?