How to delete lots of mails

[tycho]

Due to a ping-pong situation cased by a users vacation message I have some 30000+ mails in queue for delivery.
If I try to delete those in Server Admin the whole server crashes and reboots.
If I try to turn virus and spam control off to have the shit delivered as fast as possible I get this error message:
postfix/qmgr[514]: warning: connect to transport smtp-amavis: Connection refused
and nothing gets passed.
My server is an old G4 so spam and virus control take som time…
Any hints how to solve this?

[uptimejeff]

You can delete all mail in the queue with
sudo postsuper -d ALL

Jeff

[uptimejeff]

you might want to try turning off the content filter, Stop/Start mail service, then issue

sudo postsuper -r ALL

man postsuper
for more info

Jeff

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