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To see the total number of mails in the mailing queue: Exim count mail in queue exim -bpc Use the following to see which scripts are sending out mail (helps keeping an eye on mailsenders and possible malware): List the scripts sending mails and count for each one grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n To clear the mailing queue: Exim clear the mail queue exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash Or even better, a “cleaner” approach: exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm To clear the Exim mailing statistics: Clear Exim Statistics cd /var/log rm -fr exim*.1 rm -fr exim*.2 rm -fr exim*.3 rm -fr exim*.4 rm -fr exim_mainlog ; touch exim_mainlog ; chown mailnull.mail exim_mainlog rm -fr exim_paniclog ; touch exim_paniclog ; chown mailnull.mail exim_paniclog rm -fr exim_rejectlog ; touch exim_rejectlog ; chown mailnull.mail exim_rejectlog To clean the eximstats MySQL database, enter MySQL with: Enter the SQL eximstats DB mysql eximstats SQL commands (to be used within “mysql>”) SQL commands to empty the tables delete from sends; delete from smtp;