Most Frequently used Commands in Exim
Managing the Mail queue using 'exim' command
# exim -bpc
-Print the total number of mail in mail queue.
# exim -bp
-Print a listing of mails in the queue (time queued, size, message-id, sender, recipient)
# exim -bp | exiqsumm
-Print a summary of messages in the queue (count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and totals)
# exiwhat
-To print what Exim is doing right now
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# exim -Mvh <message-id>
-To view a message's headers
# exim -Mvb <message-id>
-To view a message's body
# exim -Mvl <message-id>
-To view a message's logs
# exim -Mes <message-id> <address>
-To edit the sender of a message
# exim -Mrm <message-id>
-To remove a message from the queue
# exim -Mf <message-id>
-To freeze a message
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# exim -bp | awk '$6~"frozen" { print $3 }' | xargs exim -Mrm
or
# exim -bp | grep frozen | awk '{ print $3 }' | xargs exim -Mrm
-To remove all frozen mails in the queue
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To check how exim will route a given address:
# exim -bt alias@localdomain.com
user@thishost.com
<-- alias@localdomain.com
router = localuser, transport = local_delivery
# exim -bt user@localdomain.com
user@localdomain.com
router = localuser, transport = local_delivery
# exim -bt user@remotehost.com
router = lookuphost, transport = remote_smtp
host mail.remotehost.com [1.2.3.4] MX=0
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Managing the Mail queue using 'exiqgrep' command
Exim includes a utility called exiqgrep, that is very useful for grepping through the queue.
# exiqgrep -f user@domain.com
-To search the queue for messages from a specific sender
# exiqgrep -r user@domain.com
-To search the queue for messages for a specific recipient/domain
# exiqgrep -o <sec>
-To print messages older than the specified number of seconds.
# exiqgrep -y <sec>
-To print messages that are younger than the specified number of seconds.
# exiqgrep -i
-To print the message-id of the entire queue
# exiqgrep -c
-To print a count of messages
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# exiqgrep -zi | xargs exim -Mrm
# exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm
-To remove all frozen messages
# exiqgrep -o 86400 -i | xargs exim -Mrm
-To remove all messages older than 1 day.
# exiqgrep -i -f user@domain.com | xargs exim -Mf
-To freeze all queued mail from a given sender
# exiqgrep -i -f '<>' | xargs exim -Mrm
-To remove all mail delivery failure mails.
Reference:-
http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/exim_cheatsheet.php
