Thursday 9 June 2011

Exim mail server - commands

Hi,

Please give me a brief on the various Exim commands

Solution:

Exim commands
1) To delete mails in the mail queue older than a day
exiqgrep -o 86400 -i | xargs exim -Mrm

2)exim -bp|grep $name Will show the mail in queue for $name
exim -Mvh $MSGID View message header
exim -Mvb $MSGID View message body
exim -M $MSGID Force delivery of message
exim -v -M $MSGID View the transact of message

3)Force delivery of one message
exim -M email-id

4)Force another queue run
exim -qf

5)Force another queue run and attempt to flush the frozen message
exim -qff

6)View the log for the message
exim -Mvl messageID

7)View the body of the message
exim -Mvb messageID

8)View the header of the message
exim -Mvh messageID

8)Remove message without sending any error message
exim -Mrm messageID

9)Giveup and fail message to bounce the message to the Sender
exim -Mg messageID

10)How much mail in the queue?
exim -bpr | grep "<" | wc -l


11)How many Frozen mails in the queue
exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l


12)Deleteing Frozen Messages
exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm


13)To find out, how many messages are there in the mail queue:
exim -bpc

14)To check the mails in the queue:
exim -bp

15)To force exim update:
/scripts/eximup --force

16)Sometimes from the message queue a lot of messages will be delivered even after the deletion of the particular mail id. In such cases, you can make use of this command to delete message from a particular user which is present in the message queue.

exiqgrep -i -f '' | xargs exim -Mrm


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