following a spam outbreak we are left with 2875262 messages in queue. In times past just cleaning up a few thousand email from the exim mail queue takes forever however with this amount of messages im not sure how to handle it.


Ive tried the following;
-skipped trying to manage it via whm a
-exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm
find /var/spool/exim/input -type f -exec rm -f {} +

I've tried back grounding these, running them on an active console and they just run for days.

I was think about trying to break the message down into group in order to handle such a large queue but any exim sorting take so ling on a queue as big as ours. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, you seem to know how to get Message_IDs so have a look at some of the exim stuff I noted over here...

basically:
Remove a Message from the Queue:
but I forget how to "get" MessageID as I haven't had to support a mail-serving exim host for over 2 years.

You will have to "chop it up" (the exim -Mrm...parsing) I believe as removing 2 million+ messages would be a nightmare.

Edit0:
http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/exim_cheatsheet.php

that we're i seemed to be stuck. No matter which way i try and dice splitting the list up i am still dealing with a 2 million message queue. My thought of using exiqgrep to just give the message id by date etc still seems to have to parse out of the entire email log