Re: How to delete Exims' queue

[Jijo Jose A <jijojose@sancharnet.in>]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:07:29AM +0100, vincent@waw.pdi.net wrote:
> In past my host was open relay - people from company want to snend emails from home -my mistake - and a lot spammers put through my host a lot of mails. When I have closed open relay a lot of frozen mails stayed in my exim queue and staying there till now. Exim couldn't send them. How should I delete this unwanted queue.
> 
hi Mateusz Mazur
i had written a script to do this. 
u should type 'remex email -r' to delete the mail. 
i will attached it with this mail Ok.
-jijo jose
 

# remove msges from exim queue
# by jijojose ;jijojose@sancharnet.in
if test -z mailq ; then
	echo "No Messages in Exim Queue -exit"
	exit 0
fi


if [ "$1" = "" ]  || [ "$2" = "" ]; then
	echo "Usage remex email_address [-p postpone] [ -r remove]"
	echo "by <jijojose@sancharnet.in>"
	#mailq
	echo "v 1.00"
	exit 0
fi
h=$(grep -l $1 /var/spool/exim/msglog/*|cut -b24-)
if [ ! $h = "" ]; then
	a=("/var/spool/exim/input/"$h"-H")
	c=$(grep '\<Subject:' $a)
	if [ "$2" = "-p" ]; then
		#cat "/var/spool/exim/input/"$h"-D"
		cat "/var/spool/exim/input/"$h"-D"
		exit 0
	fi
	if [ "$2" = "-r" ]; then
		echo "Remove Msg With " $c "  ID  "$h" y/N"
		read a
		if [ $a = "y" ]; then
			exim -Mrm $h
			echo "removed"
		else
			echo "Exit"
		fi
	fi
else
	echo "No such address"
	
fi