diff --git a/get_number_of_deferred_mailqueue.sh b/get_number_of_deferred_mailqueue.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+declare -i count_warn
+declare -i count_warn_default=100
+
+notification_addresses="ckubu-adm@oopen.de"
+
+host_name=`hostname -f`
+from_address="postfix@$host_name"
+content_type='Content-Type: text/plain;\n charset="utf-8"'
+
+postfix_queue_dir=/var/spool/postfix
+
+
+if [[ $1 =~ ^-?[0-9]+$ ]];then
+   count_warn=$1
+else
+   count_warn=$count_warn_default
+fi
+
+
+## - Get number of "deferred" mails in postfix queue
+## -
+## - Notice: Don't use mailq or postqueue command to examin
+## -         the number of mails. Both will open every mail in
+## -         the queue and this may take a (very) long time if
+## -         many mails are there (and it will cost much resources).
+## -
+## -         I used a little perl script but its also posible to get
+## -         the numbers of mail with:
+## -            find ${postfix_queue_dir}/deferred -type f | wc -l
+## -
+declare -i count=$(
+
+   perl -e '
+
+   use strict;
+   use warnings;
+   use Symbol;
+   sub count {
+      my ($dir) = @_;
+      my $dh = gensym();
+      my $c = 0;
+      opendir($dh, $dir) or die "$0: opendir: $dir: $!\n";
+      while (my $f = readdir($dh)) {
+         if ($f =~ m{^[A-F0-9]{5,}$}) {
+               ++$c;
+         } elsif ($f =~ m{^[A-F0-9]$}) {
+               $c += count("$dir/$f");
+         }
+      }
+      closedir($dh) or die "closedir: $dir: $!\n";
+      return $c;
+   }
+   my $qdir = shift(@ARGV) or die "Usage: $0 queue-directory\n";
+   chdir($qdir) or die "$0: chdir: $qdir: $!\n";
+   printf count("deferred");
+      ' $postfix_queue_dir 
+)
+
+
+if [[ $count -gt $count_warn ]]; then
+
+   subject="[ WARN ] postfix deferred queue exceeds $count_warn Messages"
+
+   msg="\n*${host_name}* - `date +\"%d.%m.%Y %H:%M h\"`\n\n[ Warning ]: $count messages in postfix deferred queue\n"
+   msg+="\n\nRecipient domain and time (age in minutes):\n`qshape deferred`\n"
+   msg+="\n\nSender domain and time (age in minutes):\n`qshape -s deferred`\n"
+   msg+="\n\n\n** Output from script \"`basename $0`\" - Don't reply to this e-mail **"
+
+   for email_to in $notification_addresses ; do
+
+      echo -e "To:${email_to}\n${content_type}\nSubject:$subject\n\n${msg}" | \
+         /usr/sbin/sendmail -F $from_address $email_to
+      
+  done
+   
+fi
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/postfix-delete.pl b/postfix-delete.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+ 
+$REGEXP = shift || die "no email-adress given (regexp-style, e.g. bl.*\@yahoo.com)!";
+ 
+@data = qx</usr/sbin/postqueue -p>;
+for (@data) {
+  if (/^(\w+)(\*|\!)?\s/) {
+     $queue_id = $1;
+  }
+  if($queue_id) {
+    if (/$REGEXP/i) {
+      $Q{$queue_id} = 1;
+      $queue_id = "";
+    }
+  }
+}
+ 
+#open(POSTSUPER,"|cat") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ;
+open(POSTSUPER,"|postsuper -d -") || die "couldn't open postsuper" ;
+ 
+foreach (keys %Q) {
+  print POSTSUPER "$_\n";
+};
+close(POSTSUPER);