Monitoring/security of Exim

Number of emails in the mail queue:

#exim -bpc


Frozen mails in a Queue

#exim -bp | grep -c frozen

#exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l



Removing all frozen messages:

#exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

or

#exim -bpru | grep “frozen” | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm


Deliver forcefully emails

#exim -qff -v -C /etc/exim.conf &


Remove mails from sender

#exiqgrep -i -f (mail add here) | xargs exaim -Mrm


Remove mails from Recipient

#exiqgrep -i -r (mail add here) | xargs exaim -Mrm


Below command will display total number of emails send as well receive statistics per domain basis.

#exim -bp | exiqsumm | sort -n


Delete mails for particular domain which is largest email sender you got by previous step

#exiqgrep -i -r domainname.com | xargs exim -Mrm


Number of emails sent by perticular domain greping by date:

#grep “Sept 18″ /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep domainname.com | wc -l


Get the content of an email by message ID

#exim -Mvb messageid

Force delivery of single email

#exim -M email-id


Delete particular message ID

#exim -Mg messageid


Delete the entire mail queue

#exim -bpru | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm


Check all mails by username

#exigrep -u username /var/log/exim_mainlog


View an email’s header

#exim -Mvh message-id


View an email’s body

#exim -Mvb message-id


Deliver all emails in mailqueue forcefully

#exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -M