Problem scenario
You have installed Postfix (e.g., version 3.2.0) on your Linux server. You know several emails that were sent (or attempted to be delivered) bounced. You want to have a list of those unique email addresses by themselves. What do you do?
Solution
Run this command:
sudo cat /var/log/mail | grep bounce | awk ' $0 ~ /@/ {print $5}' | awk '{FS="to="; print $2}' | tr "," " " | sort | uniq
# The first AWK finds only the email addresses that bounced (without the rest of the line)
# The second AWK removes the "to=" in the beginning of the string
# The tr command removes the commas
Please note that this does not take into account what is in the mail queue. You may want to use the mailq
command.