HOW TO REMOVE THE ENTIRE MAIL QUEUE IN MANUAL WAY

HOW TO REMOVE THE ENTIRE MAIL QUEUE IN MANUAL WAY

DATE: 29/01/2019

Execution steps to remove the entire mail queue in a manual way.

The manual way to remove the entire queue is as follows

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Step 1: Change directory to spool

Execute the following command line in your terminal

# cd /var/spool

Step 2: Move the folder of Exim

Execute the following command line in your terminal

# mv exim exim.old

Step 3: Make directories for input, msglog and db

Execute the following command line in your terminal

# mkdir -p exim/input

# mkdir -p exim/msglog

# mkdir -p exim/db

Step 4: Provide Ownership as ‘mail’

Execute the following command line in your terminal

# chown -R mail:mail exim

Step 5: Restart EXIM

see the below commands to start the Exim server in Linux.

For SysVinit Systems

# service exim start
or
# /etc/init.d/exim start

For systemd Systems

# systemctl start exim
or
# systemctl start exim.service

Finally, you have successfully removed the mail queue in your system.

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