Clearing Mail Queue

[maiijarb]

Hello,

I got a lot of msg's in our exim queue. (2-4GB in 1 day)
I want a script to clean this daily or empty it before they made it big.

Sorry if this is in wrong forum. Any help about this?

Thank you.

 

[zEitEr]

Why don't you tune your exim? A big queue in exim is a result of not using spamassassing and "RBL".

Remove all frozen messages:

# exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Remove all messages older than five days (86400 * 5 = 432000 seconds):

# exiqgrep -o 432000 -i | xargs exim -Mrm

http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/exim_cheatsheet.php

 

[maiijarb]

Thank you for your reply.

How to make a cron job to delete mail queue?
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16804

 

[LawsHosting]

My first thoughts, before nuking the queue, is to find out why the queue gets that big. In most cases its spam.