Manually interacting with postfix mail queue I need to manually be able to interact (check, remove, etc) with the postfix mail queue (through scripts and what-not). I know that this generally is a bad idea; so how can I interact with the queue without screwing things up? I believe one possible solution is to shutdown postfix, do work on the queue, and then start postfix?

You have two commands: `postqueue` and `postsuper`. Check man page for this commands.