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I use the following command to delete the exim mail queues

exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

or

# following commands seems to work faster compared to the above.
exim -bpru | awk 'print $3' | xargs exim -Mrm

But the above commands do not work when the mail queue size is more than 100,000. It get stuck. So, I am using the following script which works fine regardless of the number of mails in the queue.

My question is, will it delete correctly ?

/etc/init.d/exim stop;
sleep 10;
killall -9 exim eximd
sleep 5;

#clean out the mail queue
find /var/spool/exim -mindepth 2 -type f -exec rm -rfv ;

#clean out the mail db files
find /var/spool/exim/db -type f -exec rm -rvf ;

/etc/init.d/exim restart

I believe you are looking for this...

service exim stop
rm -fvr /var/spool/exim/input
service exim restart

However a slightly more sane method is to remove the messages on a per user basis...

egrep -Rl "((`pwd | cut -d / -f3`|$(grep `pwd | cut -d / -f3` /etc/userdomains | cut -d : -f1 | tr 'n' '|' | sed 's/|$//g'))|/home/`pwd | cut -d / -f3`)|X-Failed-Recipients" /var/spool/exim/input --include='*-H' | awk -F "/" 'gsub("-[A-Z]$","");print$NF' | xargs exim -Mrm 

In addition, to delete the emails of a specific user:

grep -lr 'user@domain.com' /var/spool/exim/input/ | 
 sed -e 's/^.*/([a-zA-Z0-9-]*)-[DH]$/1/g' | 
 xargs exim -Mrm

exim -bp | 
 grep "user_email-account" | 
 awk 'print $3' | 
 xargs exim -Mrm

To remove all messages from the queue, enter:

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