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Remove all messages from exim queue

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 16:39 — sandip

exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

`exim -bp`, lists the messages in queue, which is piped through awk, printing to output "exim -Mrm {MessageID}" which is further piped into bash for execution.

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Thu, 01/12/2012 - 09:43 — sandip cleanup all apache generated mails from exim mail queue

This works out better if you know the sender email address that needs weeding from the mail queue.

exim -bp | grep "nobody@" | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

or if you need to clean mails older than a couple days from the queue:

exim -bp | grep "^ 3d" | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' |bash

Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:50 — Anonymous Try this instead...

exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

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