Re: [Exim] quickest way to purge a message from the queue?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jason J. Horton
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] quickest way to purge a message from the queue?
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jason J. Horton wrote:

> Looks like someone faked an address from one of my
> domains to send out spam, and now one of my servers
> is being flooded with bounce messages. What is the
> quickest, cleanest way to dump messages from the queue?
> In the past I have tried deleting the files, but that
> seems to have had little to no effect.


Is the address valid in your domain? If not, turn on verify_recipients;
the bounce messages then won't get into your machine.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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