large email queues

[Alexey Fadyushin]

The answer will depend on the SMTP server software which you are using.
For example, in sendmail you usually can just delete files in 
/etc/mqueue which contain queued messages. Files to be deleted could be 
found with the use of 'grep' command with the sender address. Sendmail 
need not be restarted after files are deleted.

Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux.
http://www.brainbench.com

Aasef Iqbal wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am working with a hosting company. One of our servers is being to
> SPAM. I can see large number of emails being sent to few particular
> domains. The sender is either <> or <anonymouse at mydomain.com>
> 
> There are two question I am looking for help.
> 
> 1. How can I remove the emails already in queue. with blank sender
> address or <anonymouse at xyz.com> as sender address, or even the domain
> name pointed in TO address.
> 
> 2. as I am we provide hosting, I doubt some of my clients shall
> probably be running some scripts to generate these emails... How can I
> verify this.
> 
> Please comment.
> 
> Asif
>