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Subject: How to mitigate spam emails running in Exim?

Identify which account having the large number of emails:

exim -bp | exiqsumm

To check for message header:

exim -Mvh messageid

To check message content:

exim -Mvb messageid

Removing Bad Mail:

for i in `exiqgrep -i -f nobody`; do exim -Mrm $i; done >> Removes Nobody Mail

for i in `exiqgrep -i -o 259200`; do exim -Mrm $i; done >> Removes Mail older than 3 Days

for i in `exiqgrep -i -f β^<>$β`; do exim -Mrm $i; done >> Removes Mail with weird Characters (Spam)

Delete mails from a particular domain:

for i in `exiqgrep -i -f domain.com`; do exim -Mrm $i; done

Delete mails to a particular domain:

for i in `exiqgrep -i -r domain.com`; do exim -Mrm $i; done

Flush the entire Mail queue:

for i in `exiqgrep -i -f `; do exim -Mrm $i; done

Run the Mail queue

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