eximrm

Here is a bash script to delete mails in exim mail queue. Helpful when you have lot of spam mails in mail queue.

Create file

vi /usr/local/bin/eximrm

Add

#!/bin/bash

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

Make it executable

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/eximrm

Monitor Server Mail Queue

Run following script every 1 hour to monitor/alert email queue

#!/bin/bash

_mail_user=YOU@YOURDOMAIN.COM
_limit=250

_result="/tmp/serverok-exim-mailq.txt"
_queue="`/usr/sbin/exim -bpc`"

if [ "$_queue" -ge "$_limit" ]; then
    echo "Current queue is: $_queue" > $_result
    echo "Summary of Mail queue" >> $_result
    echo "`/usr/sbin/exim -bp | /usr/sbin/exiqsumm`" >> $_result
    mail -s "Number of mails on `hostname` : $_queue" $_mail_user < $_result
    cat $_result
fi

rm -f $_result