SPAM attack seems to freeze e-mails waiting queue

[Bento124]

Hello folks,

I am running the Parallels Panel 11.0.x and recently became victim of a SPAM attack. This means the servers mail queue is full of emails. The e-mails waiting queue shows about ~ 7500 emails. As destination address I can find non existing users like susy_brown@... willy_black@....

Now the question is, how do I get the mais server back to work and separate the SPAM mails from the valid emails.

I already tried to delete some of the SPAM, in the waiting queue, but the response "access rejected".

How should I proceed?

Thanks for your attention.

B/rgds

 

[Little Giant]

Have you tried...

# postfix -f

(-f for flush)

I needed to do this recently and worked a treat

 

[Bento124]

Hi Little Giant,

txs for your reply. I have upgraded to Parallels Panel 11.5.x. Thus I could flush, using Parallels Panel. It works much better.

Thank you anyway!