If you only wanted to keep emails for 4 days: 4 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds would equal 345600.

[root@plesklinux control]# ls queuelifetime
ls: queuelifetime: No such file or directory
[root@plesklinux control]# ../bin/qmail-showctl | grep life
queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
[root@plesklinux control]# echo 345600 > queuelifetime
[root@plesklinux control]# /etc/init.d/qmail restart
Starting qmail: [ OK ]
[root@plesklinux control]# ../bin/qmail-showctl | grep life
queuelifetime: Message lifetime in the queue is 345600 seconds.
[root@plesklinux control]#

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qmHandle, a perl script which gives you greater functionality – allows you to view and manage the ‘qmail’ message queue.

It can be install by excuting the following commands

cd /usr/bin

wget -O – “https://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/qmhandle/qmhandle-1.2.0.tar.gz” | tar xzf

Following commands are useful to manage the queue

# List emails by subject wise:

qmHandle -l |awk ‘/Subject/ {print}’|sort | more

#qmHandle -tX ‘string’ ( delete all messages with matching headers, where string to match and X specifies:

‘f’ : Who the message is from,

‘t’ : Who the message is to; or,

‘s’ : What the message’s subject is

#qmHandle -M ( delete all msgs in the queue from MAILER-DAEMON@hostname)

# Forcefully send emails.
qmHandle -a

# List message queues
qmHandle -l

# delete all messages in the queue
qmHandle -D

# list local message queue
qmHandle -L

# list remote message queue
qmHandle -R

# display message number N
qmHandle -mN

# delete message number N
qmHandle -dN

# delete all messages that contain text as Subject
qmHandle -Stext

# delete all messages that contain text as From email address
qmHandle -Ftext

# delete all messages that contain text as To email address
qmHandle -Ttext

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