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[TheHero]

Hi,

I've been thrown in a middle of a problem with someone else's dedicated server.

The server is actually running DirectAdmin with Exim. Lately they've had problems with Exim as it started creating a ton of processes until the server would run out of resources.

Looking at the mail queue, it was loaded with spam and I can't empty the queue through DA as it said:

Error proccessing the list

Details

No valid message ID's were passed

So I logged in as root and tried:

exim -qff

But then it failed after about a minute with this error message:

dm-0: write failed, user block limit reached.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your help!

[RoseHosting]

Check the following link: http://directadmin.com/forum/showthr...+ID%27s+passed

I hope this will help you.

[Patrick]

If you're trying to delete the mail queue, why are you issuing an exim -qff as that will force a delivery of the queued up messages, and the write failed error is due to you hitting a disk quota...

To remove the messages, try:

exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | sh

If that doesn't work, what OS are you running? Linux or FreeBSD as the instructions are a bit different to remove the queue directory, and that may be required if you have too many messages.

[david510]

What is the result of this?

df -h

What does this result?

exim -bpc | wc -l

To forcefully send mails in verbose use below.

exim -bpru |awk '{print $3}' | xargs -n 1 -P 40 exim -v -M