Jul 4th, 2009
Useful Exim Commands
Useful Exim Commands
Exim is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is highly configurable, and therefore has features that are lacking in other MTAs. Exim has always had substantial facilities for mail policy controls, providing facilities for the administrator to control who may send or relay mail through the system.
Print a listing of the messages in the queue (time queued, size, message-id, sender, recipient) -> exim -bp
To show the current configuration file of exim -> exim -bP
To show the version and configuration file of exim -> exim -bV
Generate and display Exim stats from a logfile -> eximstats /var/log/exim_mainlog
Print what Exim is doing right now -> exiwhat
To Print the message-id of the messages in queue -> exiqgrep -i
To remove a mail from the queue -> exim -Mrm
To freeze a mail -> exim -Mf
To deliver a specific mail from the queue -> exim -M
To remove all frozen mails -> exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm
To view the headers of a mail -> exim -Mvh
To view body of a mail -> exim -Mvb
