July 7, 2011
Basic Exim Commands & Management
The Exim MTA is used by many LAMP setups for mailing needs. cPanel, DirectAdmin and many other panels use it by default. This guide will contain useful Exim tools, configurations and general knowledge.
General Commands
Show mail queue volume (count):
exim -bpc
Show Exim IDs that are in the queue:
exim -bp
Force a delivery of a specific message by ID:
exim -M emailIDhere
Force a queue run:
exim -qf
Force a queue run and flush frozen messages from the queue:
exim -qff
View message log of a specific message by ID:
exim -Mvl messageID
View message body of a specific message by ID:
exim -Mvb messageID
View message header of a specific message by ID:
exim -Mvh messageID
Delete message silently from the queue (no bounce) by message ID:
exim -Mrm messageID
Delete message by bouncing it from the queue by message ID:
exim -Mg messageID