postqueue -f

Category: Mail Servers & Postfix

postqueue -f

Flush the mail queue as a regular user

Requests immediate delivery of all queued mail without needing root, because postqueue talks to the queue manager through a set-group-ID helper. Same effect as `postfix flush`. Frequent flushing of undeliverable mail hurts performance.
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