[malcolmb@spry]

This is a list of some of the commands I commonly use when troubleshooting exim:


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

Force delivery of one message
exim -M email-id

Force another queue run
exim -qf

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

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

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


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


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


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

To check the mails in the queue:
exim -bp

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