How to remove exim mails for a particular user from server Mail Queue

Exim is a (MTA) mail transfer agent used on linux operating systems. It is freely available under the GNU GPL and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

“spams”, its one of the major issue that a system admin has to deal with throughout his job. First you need to find the user who is generating it. You can get it from the mail headers. Once you find the user, disable the script that was responsible for spams, but it may have already kept thousands(may be lacks) of mails in the exim queue waiting for its chance to get delivered. To delete these mails one by one is impossible. In a cPanel server having exim mail, you can use the following command to delete mails in the current queue generated by that particular user only.

To print a list of the messages in the queue, enter:

# exim -bp

To remove a message from the queue, enter:

# exim -Mrm {message-id}

Delete Mail Linux Exim Server

To delete email for a particular user use shell pipes. By default the exim mail queue is located at /var/spool/exim/input directory. To delete email for a particular user called exim@linuxeasy.net, enter:

# exiqgrep -ir email@domain.com | xargs exim -Mrm
# exiqgrep -ir vivek@nixcraft.co.in | xargs exim -Mrm

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