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Exim Problem - Deleting Mail Queue Fails

Posted by TheHero, 10-07-2008, 04:49 PM
Hi, I've been thrown in a middle of a problem with someone else's dedicated server. The server is actually running DirectAdmin with Exim. Lately they've had problems with Exim as it started creating a ton of processes until the server would run out of resources. Looking at the mail queue, it was loaded with spam and I can't empty the queue through DA as it said: So I logged in as root and tried: But then it failed after about a minute with this error message: Any ideas? Thank you for your help!
Posted by RoseHosting, 10-07-2008, 07:58 PM
Check the following link: http://directadmin.com/forum/showthr...+ID%27s+passed I hope this will help you.
Posted by Patrick, 10-08-2008, 07:04 AM
If you're trying to delete the mail queue, why are you issuing an exim -qff as that will force a delivery of the queued up messages, and the write failed error is due to you hitting a disk quota... To remove the messages, try: exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | sh If that doesn't work, what OS are you running? Linux or FreeBSD as the instructions are a bit different to remove the queue directory, and that may be required if you have too many messages.
Posted by david510, 10-08-2008, 07:50 AM
What is the result of this? df -h What does this result? exim -bpc | wc -l To forcefully send mails in verbose use below. exim -bpru |awk '{print $3}' | xargs -n 1 -P 40 exim -v -M

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