Cleaning Exim Queue

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Browsing system logs noticed that bots trying to send mass messages from the server.

Attempts obviously not successful, however, exim queue filled up with emails like 1eiI0H-000693-V0 Message is frozen.

Below a very simple way to clear the queue with the specified message.

We log in to our server, then issue the command:

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exim -bpu | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm

Messages are deleted.

The log can be seen perfectly exim.

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cat /var/log/exim/main.log

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2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiKoU-0008JS-2L Completed
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiNcf-0002Zd-7T removed by root
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiNcf-0002Zd-7T Completed
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiQQr-0004kf-C7 removed by root
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiQQr-0004kf-C7 Completed
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiTF3-0006wm-I7 removed by root
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiTF3-0006wm-I7 Completed
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiW3F-0000nM-N7 removed by root
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiW3F-0000nM-N7 Completed
2018-02-05 07:32:41 1eiYrR-0003FI-TW removed by root

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