Remove All messages From the Mail Queue in exim, Remover emails from exim (Updated August 2023)

Remove All messages From the Mail Queue in exim, Remover emails from exim, remove emails from shell

When you using Exim mail server under CentOS Linux or any Linux system.

How do you remove all messages from the Exim mail queue using a shell prompt with one command?

print list of messages in queue

To print a list of the messages in the queue, enter:

# exim -bpc

remove all messages from the queue

To remove a message from the queue, enter:

# exim -Mrm {message-id}

remove all messages from the queue

To remove all messages from the mail queue, enter: 

 

# exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

I hope you now can solve this problem, also you can  know the page that sent spam emails with the following command.

 How to know the source of the spam:

# grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Remove All messages From the Mail Queue in exim, Remover emails from exim, remove emails from shell