Delete Frozen Emails

Howto check number of emails in the mail queue:


exim -bpc

To check the email ID, sender and receiver of the each email:

exim -bp | more

To delete frozen emails from the mail queue, execute:

exim -bp | grep ‘frozen’ | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs exim -Mrm

similarly, to delete emails sent using a script’

exim -bp | grep ‘<>’ | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs exim -Mrm