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Note: the below is for system administrators with root ssh access only.
It may be useful to someone, sometimes the queued mail list gets gigantic because of some spammer and other emails that aren't spam could get deleted when using cPanel to control it.
==== REMOVE MAILS BY ID ====
/usr/sbin/exim -v -Mrm (MAIL ID HERE)
==== LIST QUEDED MAILS ====
/usr/sbin/exim -bp
==== OUTPUT NUMBER OF QUEDED MAILS ====
/usr/sbin/exim -bpc
==== DELETE FROZEN MAILS ====
/usr/sbin/exim -bp | awk '$6~"frozen" { print $3 }' | xargs exim -Mrm
==== DELIVER FORCEFULLY EMAILS ====
/usr/sbin/exim -qff -v -C /etc/exim.conf &
==== FREEZE MAILS FROM SENDER ====
/usr/sbin/exiqgrep -i -f (MAIL ADDRESS HERE) | xargs exim -Mf
==== REMOVE MAILS FROM SENDER ====
/usr/sbin/exiqgrep -i -f (MAIL ADDRESS HERE) | xargs exim -Mrm
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