How to delete the exim mail queue from the command line

[AHATEMA]

Hello,

How can I delete the Exim MTA queue from the command line?

I have tried with the:

/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr2 killeximq

as advised in a post in this forum, but it simply returns:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Connection: close
Server: whostmgr/10.8.0
Content-type: text/html

and exits.

Brandon

[AHATEMA]

Try:

/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr2 killeximq

I have already tried this, as mentioned above. It does not work for me.

Brandon

[kernow]

Try:

/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/whostmgr2 killeximq

[jayh38]

Use this
exim -bpru|awk {'print $3'}|xargs exim -Mrm

I would suggest deleting mails in the queue that are older than 5 mins perhaps.
At least give a change to deliver so you do not remove legit mails that might
arrive at that moment.


exiqgrep -o 300 -i | xargs exim -Mrm

This will remove mails older than 5 mins (300 seconds). adjust your time accordingly.