How to delete frozen mails from Exim mail queue
Sometimes there can be so many frozen mails in the Exim mail queue.
To know the number of frozen mails in the mail queue, you can use the following command
exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l
In order to remove all frozen mails from the Exim mail queue, use the following command
exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm
You can also use the command given below to delete all frozen mails
exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm
If you want to only delete frozen messages older than a day, you can try the following
exiqgrep -zi -o 86400
where you can change the value 86400 depending on the time frame you want to keep (1 day = 86400 seconds).
Get details of scripts that are used to send out spam emails :
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grep “cwd=” /var/log/exim_mainlog|awk ‘{for(i=1;i<=10;i++){print $i}}’|sort|uniq -c|grep cwd|sort -n
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==== REMOVE MAILS FROM SENDER ====
/usr/sbin/exiqgrep -i -f (MAIL ADDRESS HERE) | xargs exim -Mrm
==== REMOVE MAILS FROM RECIPIENT ====
exiqgrep -i -r (MAIL ADDRESS HERE) | xargs exim -Mrm
=====COUNT HOW MANY FROZEN MAILS IN QUEUE===
exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l
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