How to : Remove All messages From the Mail Queue Of Exim

Matt Bold — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:55:00 +0000

Exim is a well-known Mail transfer agent (MTA) which is compatible with similar operating systems to Unix. It’s goal is to become an all-purpose and flexible mailer with a variety of tools for checking the incoming mail. For more details, read the Exim documentation.

In this post, Hostpoco will demonstrate some commands for eliminating every message from your Mail Queue. Follow the steps.

Step 1: Print a summary of items in the queue type the following command:

exim -bp

Step 2: To delete messages in the queue use the following command:

exim -Mrm {message-id}

Step 3:To get rid of all messages in the queue, use the following command:

exim -bp | awk ‘/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print “exim -Mrm ” $3}’ | bash

Step 4:Dallas Marlow. He suggested the following clean command:

exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Step 5:Command to remove emails of perticular domain from mail queue:

exiqgrep -ir [email protected] | xargs exim -Mrm

That’s it.