On 6 February 2015 at 01:01, Steve Albin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello. > > I tried searching the docs and the mailing list, unsuccessfully. > > One of the accounts on a linux server I run was hacked, and the hacker has > sent many and now queued several hundred thousand spam emails. > > The disk holding exim ... /var/spool/exim ... is 100 percent full. > > The exim and exiqgrep commands still function, but there are so many > messages > that any attempt to form a pipe exits in error. > > Since I don't seem able to delete all messages from that sender, I am > ready to > delete all messages in the queue (or queues if that is the case; I am new > to this). > > I can delete and re-create the directories /var/spool/exim/input and > /var/spool/exim/msglog > but I don't know if there is anything needed inside those directories. > > Any suggestions by someone knowledgeable? > exipick -iz | xargs exim -Mrm -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
