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)

exim -bp |awk {‘print $3′} |xargs exim -Mrm

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

To check the list of pending mails use
exim -bp

To deliver the mails use
exim -qf -d

If working on a Server then check the load on it (using the command w ) and if the load is not high (less than 1.o) then you could also set 1 or 2 mail runners (do not set more than 2 as the load on the server may increase) using the command
exim -qf &

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.

and it work great :)

The faq has been updated with your command. Thanks for sharing with us!

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.

Thanks for sharing your solution!

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

EXIM creates 2 files for email – 1 for the headers part and another for the message body. Erasing everything from this folder must erase the queue.

EXIM names the files with the msg_id an put -H or -D part on the end of filename – H for headers an -D for body file

-rw-r-----  1 exim exim 17961 nov 19 12:12 1L2kyk-0007gm-0v-D
-rw-r-----  1 exim exim  1172 nov 19 12:12 1L2kyk-0007gm-0v-H

The solution of Vivek is good, but for less traffic, otherwise if you manage lots of emails I recommend you to rm the files.

One of my cases:
[root@mta1 ~]# exim -bpc
O/p:

213376

… and i afraid i cannot use this solution.

Regards
Ol.
Bulgaria