Although I am fond of Sendmail, I have to admin that there are lot of other respectable MTAs that do a great job, are very very powerful and are far easier to install, configure and administer. Due to my numerous CPanel servers I usually have to work with Exim MTA and perform various operations on my mail queues. Here are some very useful commands for Exim MTA. » Read more: Fighting with Exim Queues
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Fighting with Exim Queues
February 3rd, 2010Exim Mass Mail Delete from Queue
November 26th, 2009If your server suffers from a spamming attack through an exploited web site or any other means it is probable that you want to delete all offending mails. Below we provide a very useful script which does exactly this. It scans through your mail queues and deletes all mail that match the sended or the recipient address you specify. In order to use it login to your server using SSH and execute the command: » Read more: Exim Mass Mail Delete from Queue
Exim Ignore MX Record
October 5th, 2009There are some cases where you want to ignore the configured MX record in order to deliver e-mails for a domain and instead deliver them to a preconfigured server. A very common situation where you want to do this is when you provide advanced anti virus and anti spam solutions to your clients. In those cases you want any mail delivered for a domain to be forwarded to you advanced anti virus/anti spam server. Below we will show you how to do this and forward any mail for cphelp.gr and all it’s sub domains to the server superantispam.cphelp.gr instead of the MX record that shows mail.cphelp.gr. » Read more: Exim Ignore MX Record
