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Print a count of the messages in the queue:
exim -bpc -
How to resend frozen messages in exim4 queue
exim -bp | grep frozen | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -v -M -
Print a listing of the messages in the queue (time queued, size, message-id, sender, recipient):
exim -bp -
Information about all the messages on the queue:
exim -bp | less -
Print a summary of messages in the queue (count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and totals):
exim -bp | exiqsumm -
Print what Exim is doing right now:
exiwhat -
Remove frozen emails
exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm -
Force delivery of one message
exim -M email-id -
display emails with particular email address
exiqgrep -i -f (MAIL ADDRESS HERE) | xargs exim -bpr -
Remove emails with particular email address
exiqgrep -i -f email_address_here | xargs exim -bpr | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm -
How many Frozen mails on the queue
exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l -
View the log for the message.
exim -Mvl messageID -
View the body of the message.
exim -Mvb messageID -
View the header of the message
exim -Mvh messageID
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Remove message without sending any error message
exim -Mrm messageID -
Giveup and fail message to bounce the message to the Sender
exim -Mg messageID -
How many mails on the Queue?
exim -bpr | grep "<" | wc -l -
How to force sending the list from exim -bpr?
exim -bpr | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -M -
display messages which have been on the queue for a day or more:
exiqgrep -o $((60*60*24)) -
To find the largest files on the queue
exim -bpr | awk '/^.[0-9]/{if($2~/[MK]/){ if($2~/K/){u="K"; uf=1024} else {u="M"; uf=1024*1024}; num=uf*substr($2,0,index($2,u))}else{num=$2}; print $1 " " num " "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}' | sort -k2nr | head -
More simply, to display a count of emails larger than 20K:
exipick -bp '$message_size > 20K' -
To display a count of emails larger than 20K:
exipick -bpc '$message_size > 20K' -
How to print que status to file?
exim -bp | exiqsumm > exim-status-date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'.txt -
how to generate exim report
make it full report and save to HTML file with date stamp on it eximstats -html=exim-report-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`.html /var/log/exim4/mainlog make it simple report and save to the HTML file with date stamp on it eximstats -ne -nr -nt -html=exim-report-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`.html /var/log/exim4/mainlog eximstats -ne -nr -nt /var/log/exim4/mainlog make it full report to the screen eximstats /var/log/exim4/mainlog /var/log/exim4/mainlog.1 -
To copy a file from B to A while logged into B:
scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination -
To copy a file from B to A while logged into A:
scp username@b:/path/to/file /path/to/destination -
sending message from command line
exim -v your_to_email_address FROM: from_email_address TO: to_email_address SUBJECT: test test CTRL+D CTRL+C -
Test how exim will route a given address:
root@localhost# exim -bt alias@localdomain.com
user@thishost.com
<-- alias@localdomain.com
router = localuser, transport = local_delivery
root@localhost# exim -bt user@thishost.com
user@thishost.com
router = localuser, transport = local_delivery
root@localhost# exim -bt user@remotehost.com
router = lookuphost, transport = remote_smtp
host mail.remotehost.com [1.2.3.4] MX=0
- Cron Jobs
# m h dom mon dow command
58 11 * * * sh /home/user-folder/exim-simple-report.sh
*/10 * * * * sh /home/user-folder/exim-status.sh
- creating shell file for cron jobs
exim-simple-report.sh
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/eximstats -ne -nr -nt -html=/home/user-folder/exim-report-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`.html /var/log/exim4/mainlog
exim-status.sh
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/exim -bp | /usr/sbin/exiqsumm > /home/user-folder/exim-status.txt
make sure to replace "user-folder" to your home directory - for example, like /home/jdoe/
- after create files, run
chmod +x exim-simple-report.sh
chmod +x exim-status.sh