Flush or Clear out Exim mail queue

Exim mail queue can get out of control. If your var is on a separate smaller sized partition it can quickly run out of space.

We can see what's using up all that space via:


cd /var
du -sh * | sort -n

and as with Exim, our culprit location should be:


/var/spool/exim/input

So to quickly clear out the exim mail queue we do the following:


cd /var/spool/exim/;rm -rf input msglog;/scripts/eximup --force

And that should do it.