Exim Remove All messages From the Mail Queue

Another solution is put this router in the EXIM configure and run some queue runners – exim -qff&

If you place the router in first place he will delete all messages older than X seconds. 1800 = 30 min.

router_mailxpire:

 driver = redirect
 condition = ${if >= {$message_age}{1800}}
 data = /dev/null
 file_transport = address_file
 no_more

… you are welcome :)

Cheers

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this is a much cleaner/safer way to do the same thing (using the tools provided by all modern exim installations)

exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

exim -bp # this prints the contents of the mail queue
exiqgrep # extracts the id from each mail
xargs exim -Mrm # removes the mail

exiqgrep is pretty flexible (for instance if you wanted to only extract the frozen email id’s used exiqgrep -iz ), exipick is an extension of exiqgrep that can help a bit too.

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Have you been remove about 1200821 queue ?
it wont work with “exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm” ( I tried to wait until 24hours, it get my swap until 0 free)
so it must use script to remove the queue, in my case:
-list all directory in ‘input’ folder:
cd /var/spool/exim/input ; ls >> /tmp/folder
-create a script name “removeall”
echo “for b in `ls` ; do rm -f $b ; done” >> /tmp/removeall ; chmod 700 /tmp/removeall
- go to input folder and exec command
for a in `cat /tmp/folder` ; do cd $a ; /tmp/removeall ; cd .. ; done

and it work great :)

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Well, I remove all the messages in the queue but still am not able to send any mail :(

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akbar:

Your function can be simplified as:
for dir in /var/spool/exim/input/*; do cd $dir; ls | xargs rm -f; done

Of course, if your intention is to simply remove all files (not directories) underneath /var/spool/exim/input, that process can be simplified as follows:

find /var/spool/exim/input -type f -exec rm -f {} +

Of course, this assumes that there are no files below input that shouldn’t be deleted.

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Hello,

About the Dallas Marlow comment:

It’s possible to do it without the “exim -bp” command.

The command “exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm” does exactly the same, because exiqgrep looks up the queue by itself.

Regards,

J. Ruiz

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I client of my have been hacked and they sent about 40 millions of mails.
I have all of them in the input folder, i cant ls, du or nothing, this is a sh*t.
Anyone have some script that do this really fast ? i dont want to wait 1 month for clean up.

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Tyler,

Thanks for your post — I saw what Akbar was trying to accomplish, but was wondering if there was a simpler way to do, and then I read down further to your post.

I had a client who had over 300,000 messages in the Exim Queue after his server was compromised by a PHP script and using exiqgrep didn’t seem to work (since I imagine exiqgrep doesn’t expect to encounter that many messages in Exim’s queue in the first place).

I created a shell command out of your command there, and ran it, and voila — everything is back to normal.

In addition, I think it may be of note to mention that configserver.com makes two applications that are free for WHM called CMM (Mail Manager) and CMQ (Mail Queue Manager) which help with these kinds of issues, but of course if you have a massive queue (300,000 messages for example) they won’t really help much, since they also use Exim’s built-in toolset to run the commands.

Thanks again Tyler! =0)

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