Re: [exim] How do you delete a large frozen queue?

On 6 February 2015 at 01:01, Steve Albin <stevea@???> wrote:

>
> Hello.
>
> I tried searching the docs and the mailing list, unsuccessfully.
>
> One of the accounts on a linux server I run was hacked, and the hacker has
> sent many and now queued several hundred thousand spam emails.
>
> The disk holding exim ... /var/spool/exim ... is 100 percent full.
>
> The exim and exiqgrep commands still function, but there are so many
> messages
> that any attempt to form a pipe exits in error.
>
> Since I don't seem able to delete all messages from that sender, I am
> ready to
> delete all messages in the queue (or queues if that is the case; I am new
> to this).
>
> I can delete and re-create the directories /var/spool/exim/input and
> /var/spool/exim/msglog
> but I don't know if there is anything needed inside those directories.
>
> Any suggestions by someone knowledgeable?
>


exipick -iz | xargs exim -Mrm



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