Remove all messages from exim queue

exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

`exim -bp`, lists the messages in queue, which is piped through awk, printing to output "exim -Mrm {MessageID}" which is further piped into bash for execution.

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cleanup all apache generated mails from exim mail queue

This works out better if you know the sender email address that needs weeding from the mail queue.

exim -bp | grep "nobody@" | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

or if you need to clean mails older than a couple days from the queue:

exim -bp | grep "^ 3d" | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' |bash

Try this instead...

exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

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