Viewing Exim Mail Queue!

[ExoCrew]

Hello,

Recently I have migrated from cPanel to DirectAdmin and there have been many problems. Well, now the problem is that users are sending out spam and I want to delete those spam emails from the queue and for that reason I need to be able to view the mail queue and delete messages.

I gone through the forum and found the solution to install webmin with exim module. I did it, but to no avail. I still cannot view the exim mail queue.

From command line, I tried and found that eximqgrep utility is not installed (maybe not with DirectAdmin). Then I checked the mailq (/usr/bin/mailq) but it wasn't available as well. The last try i gave was to exim -bp but still nothing.

So any idea how can i manage the mail queue?

Thanks ..

 

[ballyn]

exim -bp will show you all of the messages in the queue. You have to be an admin user in a default install of exim for this to work.

Of course, this will only show you messages actively in the queue (waiting to be delivered).

 

[bclancey]

On a related note . . . how do you make exim filter outgoing mail for spam and put it on hold until authorized or not by the sys admin?
This might make it easier to quickly identify bad users and close their accounts for violating your anti-spam policies.