how to delete the all list in Mail Queue Administration easily?

[seachen]

i found out that my server Mail Queue Administration inside have too many user spam mail.

may i know how to delete those process ID with 1 click?

thank you.

 

[proHSP]

If you want to clean your mail queue, just do "cd /var/spool/exim/input && ls | xargs rm -rf"

 

[seachen]

i have try it. but it not working.

 

[nobaloney]

proHSP, you've made a critical error because exim has multiple files for each email in the queue, in two directories, /var/spool/exim/input and /var/spool/exim/msglog, and a database in /var/spool/exim/db

seachen, you've created some inconsistencies by following the advice. I'm not able to suggest how to clean those inconsistencies because I don't have a queue I want to experiment with.

Here's the right way to empty the queue of all email:

cd /var/spool/exim/input && ls | xargs exim -Mrm

What proHSP's code does is deletes only part of the email. So after doing the above I'd try the following to resolve the inconsistencies, though I can't guarantee it will work completely:

service exim stop
killall exim
killall -9 exim
cd /var/spool/exim/input
ls | xargs rm -f
cd /var/spool/exim/msglog
ls | xargs rm -f
service exim restart

Jeff

 

[smtalk]

Or just try:

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

 

[nobaloney]

Martynas, will that find all the files in both dirctories, and also in the db directory?

Jeff