eximrm
Here is a bash script to delete mails in exim mail queue. Helpful when you have lot of spam mails in mail queue.
Create file
vi /usr/local/bin/eximrm
Add
#!/bin/bash exim -bpu | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm
Make it executable
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/eximrm
Monitor Server Mail Queue
Run following script every 1 hour to monitor/alert email queue
#!/bin/bash [email protected] _limit=250 _result="/tmp/serverok-exim-mailq.txt" _queue="`/usr/sbin/exim -bpc`" if [ "$_queue" -ge "$_limit" ]; then echo "Current queue is: $_queue" > $_result echo "Summary of Mail queue" >> $_result echo "`/usr/sbin/exim -bp | /usr/sbin/exiqsumm`" >> $_result mail -s "Number of mails on `hostname` : $_queue" $_mail_user < $_result cat $_result fi rm -f $_result