Hold or delete message files from the PMDF queue area that contain specified substrings in their envelope From: address, Subject: header, or message content.

Syntax

pmdf qclean [channel]

Command Qualifiers	Defaults
-content=substring	None
-database	-database
-delete	-hold
-directory_tree	-database
-env_from=substring	None
-hold	-hold
-match=keyword	-match=AND
-min_length=n	-min_length=24
-subject=substring	None
-threads=n	-nothreads
-verbose	-noverbose

restrictions

On UNIX, privileges sufficient to read and delete files in the PMDF channel queue directory tree, as well as read and update the PMDF queue cache database, are required.

Parameters

channel

Optional parameter which specifies a specific PMDF channel area to be searched for matching messages. * or ? wildcard characters may be used in the channel specification.

Description

Hold or delete message files containing specific substrings in their envelope From: address, Subject: line, or content. By default, message files are held (-hold). Specify -delete to instead delete matching message files. The -content, -env_from, and -subject qualifiers are used to specify the substrings for which to search.

Any combination of -content, -env_from, and -subject may be specified. However, only one of each may be used. The -match qualifier controls whether a message file must contain all (-match=AND, the default) or only one of (-match=OR) the specified substrings in order to be held or deleted. The default is -match=AND.

By default, each substring to be searched for must be at least 24 bytes long (-min_length=24). This is a safety measure: the longer the substring, the less likely the chance of false "hits". Use the -min_length qualifier to override this limit. Also by default, only message files identified by the queue cache database are searched (-database). Use the -directory_tree qualifier to instead search all message files actually present in the channel queue directory tree.

The optional channel parameter restricts the search to message files in the specified channel. The channel parameter may use * and ? wild cards.

The -threads qualifier may be used to accelerate searching on multiprocessor systems by dividing the work amongst multiple, simultaneously running threads. To run n simultaneous searching threads, specify -threads=n. The value n must be in the range 1-8. The default is -nothreads.

Command Qualifiers

-content=substring

-env_from=substring

-subject=substring

The -content, -env_from, and -subject qualifiers are used to specify the substrings for which to search. Any combination of -content, -env_from, and -subject may be specified. However, only one of each may be used. When a combination of such qualifiers is used, the -match qualifier controls whether the qualifiers are interpreted as further restrictions (-match=AND), or as alternatives (-match=OR).

-database (default)

-directory_tree

The -database qualifier, the default, specifies that only message files identified by the queue cache database be searched. Use the -directory_tree qualifier to instead search all message files actually present in the channel queue directory tree.

-delete

-hold (default)

-hold is the default and means that matching message files will be held. Specify -delete to instead delete matching message files.

-match=keyword

The default is -match=AND, meaning that any criteria specified by -content, -env_from, and -subject qualifiers must all match in order for the current hold or delete operation to be applied. Specifying -match=OR means that a message will match as long as at least one such criterion matches.

-min_length=n

By default, each substring to be searched for must be at least 24 bytes long (-min_length=24). This is a safety measure: the longer the substring, the less likely the chance of false "hits". Use the -min_length qualifier to override this limit.

-threads=n

-nothreads (defaults)

The -threads qualifier may be used to accelerate searching on multiprocessor systems by dividing the work amongst multiple, simultaneously running threads. To run n simultaneous searching threads, specify -threads=n. The value n must be an integer in the range 1-8. The default is -nothreads.

-verbose

-noverbose (default)

The -verbose qualifier may be used to request that the utility print out information about what it is doing as it operates.

EXAMPLES

# pmdf qclean -min_length=11 -subject="real estate" -env_from="ownership.com"
%QM-I-QCLISTING, building a list of message files to scan 
                 from the queue cache 
%QM-I-SCANNING, scanning 72 message files 
%QM-I-SCANNED, scanned 72 message files in 3.7500 seconds 
               (19.20 messages/second) 
%QM-I-HELD, held 5 message files 
      

The above UNIX example shows holding all message files in the PMDF queue area that have the string "real estate" in the Subject: header and have the string "ownership.com" in the envelope From: address.

C:\> pmdf qclean -min_length=12 -subject="real estate" -env_from="ownership.com"
%QM-I-QCLISTING, building a list of message files to scan from 
                 the queue cache 
%QM-I-SCANNING, scanning 72 message files 
%QM-I-SCANNED, scanned 72 message files in 3.7500 seconds 
               (19.20 messages/second) 
%QM-I-HELD, held 5 message files 
      

The above NT example shows holding all message files in the PMDF queue area that have the string "real estate" in the Subject: header and have the string "ownership.com" in the envelope From: address.