On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:01:58 +0000 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? > > Thank you. > > Steve Albin > Hello. If you don't mind messages in queue you can stop exim and clear the queue with this: find /var/spool/exim/input -type f -delete It will delete all files in /var/spool/exim/input and will not affect directories.
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