SupportSages » cheat sheets http://www.supportsages.com/blog Technical Support and Server Management : Musings in the fox hole. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:05:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Exim cheat sheet – Commands for troubleshoot mail issues in cPanel/DirectAdmin or any exim mail server http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/08/exim-commands/ http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/08/exim-commands/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:35:50 +0000 George http://www.supportsages.com/blog/?p=499 exim -bpc Print a listing of the messages in the queue (time queued, size, message-id, sender, recipient):
exim -bp
Print a summary of messages in the queue (count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and total
exim -bp| exiqsumm
Print what Exim is doing right now:
exiwhat
To check if the server routes the mail properly use exim -bt 
# 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
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			Below are the most common exim commands which helps an Administrator to ease his life


Print a count of the messages in the queue:


exim -bpc


Print a listing of the messages in the queue (time queued, size, message-id, sender, recipient):


exim -bp


Print a summary of messages in the queue (count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and total


exim -bp| exiqsumm


Print what Exim is doing right now:


exiwhat


To check if the server routes the mail properly use exim -bt




# 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




Display all of Exim’s configuration settings:


exim -bp


exiqgrep


Its used for grepping through the  exim queue.


search the queue for messages from a specific sender :


exigrep -f  user@domainname.com


Search the queue for a specific reciepient


exigrep -r user@domainname.com


To print messages older than the specified number of seconds use -o .


For example, messages older than 1 day:


exigrep -o 86400


To print messages younger than specified number of seconds use -y


Messages younger than one day can be listed  using the command


exigrep -y 86400


Print just the message-id of the entire queue:


exiqgrep -i


Managing the queue


Start a queue run:


exim -q -v


Start a queue run for just local deliveries:


exim -ql  -v


Remove a message from the queue:


exim -Mrm <message id >


Freeze a message:


exim -Mf <message id >


Thaw a message:


exim -Mt <message id>


Deliver a message, whether it’s frozen or not, whether the retry time has been reached or not:


exim -M <message id>


Deliver a message, but only if the retry time has been reached:


exim -Mc <message_id>


Force a message to  Freeze and bounce as “Canceled by Admin”


exim -Mg <message id>


Remove all frozen mails


exigrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm


Remove all messages older than five days (86400 * 5 = 432000 seconds):


exigrep -o 432000 -i | xargs exim -Mrm


Freeze all queued mail from a given sender


exiqgrep -i -f user@domain.com | xargs exim -Mf


View a message’s headers:


exim -Mvh <messageid>


View a message’s body:


exim -Mvb <message id>


View a message’s logs:


exim -Mvl <message id>


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