How to purge your exim emails and handle a Line mismatch error
Just a quick post mainly for my reference on how to purge your exim mail queue and handle the "Line mismatch:" error you can get sometimes when things aren't working as they should.
You can list all of the messages backed up with the commands:
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- exim -bp
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- mailq
To remove a particular message from the queue:
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- exim -Mrm {message-id}
To remove all of the messages in the queue:
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- exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm
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- exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm
However sometimes the above doesn't work and you get "Line mismatch:
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- exim -bpru | grep '<code>' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 -P 20 exim -Mrm
You might need to run it a few times, just use the mailq command to get the to delete.
