Exim4

Display the number of email messages in the queue

exim -bpc

Display information about email messages in the queue

exim -bp

Displays time queued, size, message-id, sender and recipient.

Display a summary of messages in the queue

exim -bp | exiqsumm 

Displays count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and totals.

Display Exim’s current activity

exiwhat

[příklad použití]

Test Exim SMTP transaction

exim -bh ipaddress 

This spoofs an SMTP transaction emanating from ipaddress. Exim’s status will be displayed as the transaction runs. Note: the message will not be delivered.

SMTP transaction

Display Exim settings

exim -bP

Exim settings

Search the mail queue for messages from a specific sender

exiqgrep -f [luser]@domain

Search the mail queue for messages from a specific recipient or domain

exiqgrep -r [luser]@domain

Display messages older than a specified number of seconds

exiqgrep -o <SEC> [...]

Display messages newer than a specified number of seconds

exiqgrep -y <SEC> [...]

Locate messages matching a specific size

exiqgrep -s '^4..$' [...]

For example, 400-499 bytes.

Use -z to match only frozen messages. Use -x to match only unfrozen messages. To display just the message-id, use -I. -c shows the message count.

Display the message count of the mail queue

exiqgrep -c ...

Start a queue run

root@localhost# exim -q -v

Start a queue run isolated to local deliveries

root@localhost# exim -ql -v

Remove a message from the queue

root@localhost# exim -Mrm <message-id> [ <message-id> ... ]

Freeze a message

root@localhost# exim -Mf <message-id> [ <message-id> ... ]

Throw a message

root@localhost# exim -Mt <message-id> [ <message-id> ... ]

Deliver a message

root@localhost# exim -M <message-id> [ <message-id> ... ]

Deliver a message (if the retry time has been reached)

root@localhost# exim -Mc <message-id> [ <message-id> ... ]

Force a message to fail

root@localhost# exim -Mg <message-id> [ <message-id> ... ]

Remove all frozen messages

root@localhost# exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Remove all messages older than a defined number of seconds

root@localhost# exiqgrep -o seconds -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Freeze all queued mail from a named sender

root@localhost# exiqgrep -i -f luser@example.net| xargs exim -Mf

View a message’s mail headers

root@localhost# exim -Mvh <message-id>

View a message’s body

root@localhost# exim -Mvb <message-id>

View a message’s logs

root@localhost# exim -Mvl <message-id> 

Add a recipient to a message

root@localhost# exim -Mar <message-id> <address> [ <address> ... ]

Edit a message sender

root@localhost# exim -Mes <message-id> <address>