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

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:01:58 +0000
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?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Steve Albin
>

Hello.

If you don't mind messages in queue you can stop exim and clear the
queue with this:
find /var/spool/exim/input -type f -delete

It will delete all files in /var/spool/exim/input and will not affect
directories.