Stopping EXIM on Ubuntu

Question

I have EXIM running on a server that I am trying to decommission (but I still have stuff I need to move off).

$ sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 stop

* Stopping MTA                                                          [ OK ]
* ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size,
            mail system possibly broken

2011-02-01 19:18:37 string too large in smtp_notquit_exit()

How can I stop exim from running and accepting mail on port 25?

Answer 1

sudo pgrep exim | xargs kill -9 # will kill all processes that contain exim string

sudo dpkg --purge exim4 # to uninstall exim4

Answer 2

Either of these should work:

sudo killall -9 exim 

or

sudo pkill -9 exim 

To purge, try sudo apt-get purge exim4* .

This will also remove exim4-base* exim4-config* exim4-daemon-light*