If you want to remove the mails from the exim then follow the following commands
exim -bp
Through this above command you will get some IDs like:
exim -bp 12d 3.0K 1Qe0j7-0004Fa-5x root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
After above command use below command to delete that specific message
exim -Mrm {message-id}
Remove all emails from exim queue, this will delete every thing in your exim mail queue
# exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash
If you want to delete frozen messages, you may try below given commands
exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm
Alternate command to delete frozen mails
exim -bp | awk ‘$6 == “frozen” {print $3}’ | xargs exim -Mrm
You can check number of frozen email through below given command
exim -bp | grep frozen | wc -l
Both these below command also have the ability to delete the whole email queue
exim -bpru|awk {‘print $3?}|xargs exim -Mrm
If that command will not work, you may try
exim -bp | grep < | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs exim -Mrm
