On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:40:31AM -0500, S.D.A. wrote: | On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: | | <cut> | | > | to prevent some embarrassingly old stuff getting out. | > | > Deleting the information cache like that doesn't delete any messages | > from the queue. Old messages on the queue will still be sent. See | > what is on the queue by running 'mailq'. Remove a message by running | > 'exim -Mrm <id>' where <id> is a message id obtained from 'mailq' or | > the log file. | | Dman -- Is there a way to do this with all the que'ed messages at once? | | I just looked and I have almost 50 messages in the mailq. Very time | consuming to do each one by one.
Something similar to :
exim -Mrm `mailq | grep '^[^- ]' | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
BEWARE - I have not tested this on a system with exim because the exim
system has no mail on its queue. You may need (or want) to adjust the
patterns for your system. (I did force a message to get stuck on a
postfix system so I would have something listed in 'mailq')
Tools like grep, cut, sed, and awk (as well as the shell itself) are
essential for a unix/linux administrator. With a working knowledge of
those tools you can easily automate many tasks, with a solution
talilored to your needs, using the information already available.
-D
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