how to empty mail queue by cron?

[palle]

hello everyone,
i am using latest vesta version on small debian VPS (1G RAM).
Lately i got the problem that one domain email service is getting attacked. So it over run the mail server with too
many wrong delivered email requests. I would like to set an auto delete.
I tried to set

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sudo /usr/sbin/exiqgrep -o 7200 -f '<>' -i | xargs -r /usr/sbin/exim -Mrm

and

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sudo /usr/sbin/exiqgrep -z -o 7200 -i | xargs -r /usr/sbin/exim -Mrm 

into the cron. but it didn't work. Has anyone an idea what i did wrong? or is there an more acurate way to approach this problem?

any hint is welcome and thanks in advance!

[skurudo]

With sudo from admin you have some limitations, check sudoers.

And if you plan use logn command in cron, it's not alwayes good.. better make sh script for more than one command.