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Exim Cheat Sheet

Cheat Code
Show messages on queue exim -bp
Display message for id exim -Mvl id
Display message header for id exim -Mvh id
Display body for id exim -Mvb id
Purge message id fro queue exim -Mrm id
Check conf syntax exim -bV
Test mail delivery path exim -bt <local or remote email address>
Debug delivery process exim -d -M <exim-message-id>
Display queue summary ( - see below) exim -bp <pipe> exiqsumm
Re run queue exim -qf
Re run queue and flush frozen messages exim -qff
Search queue exiqgrep
Search logs exigrep
Produce statistics eximstats /var/log/exim/main.log 
# exim -bp | exiqsumm

Count  Volume  Oldest  Newest  Domain
-----  ------  ------  ------  ------

    1    7270     31h     31h  att.net
    1    44KB      3d      3d  helpsavepets.com
    1    23KB     46h     46h  mail.fmjpadlock.com
   28   172KB      4d     13h  server1.domain.co.uk
   42   297KB     34h     56m  yourdomain.co.uk
    1    20KB     14h     14h  v.v.v.go2fortaleza.com
---------------------------------------------------------------
   74   563KB      4d     56m  TOTAL

Also, see Brad's Cheat Sheet

List the mail queue 

exiqgrep -i


Clear the entire queue 

exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

List the mail queue 

exiqgrep -i

Force delivery of one message 

exim -M emailID

Force queue re-run 

exim -qf

Force another queue run and attempt to flush frozen messages 

exim -qff

View Log for message 

exim -Mvl messageID

View Body for message 

exim -Mvb messageID

View Header for message 

exim -Mvh messageID

Clear the entire queue, this will delete messages in the queue, not attempt to redeliver. 

exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Clear DB of frozen msgs

exim_tidydb -t 10m /var/spool/exim retry
exim_tidydb -t 10m /var/spool/exim wait-tls_smtp

Check routing

exim -bt user@company.com
and with copious debugging enabled:-
exim -d -bt user@company.com

Check messages on the queue

# exim -bp | exiqsumm

Count  Volume  Oldest  Newest  Domain
-----  ------  ------  ------  ------

    3    22KB     62h     44h  cadugomes.site
    1    15KB     18h     18h  falingrade.click
    1    23KB     40h     40h  mail.ipspellistatv.com
    1   269KB     41h     41h  rainsbrook.co.uk
    1    4915     21h     21h  un.org
---------------------------------------------------------------
    7   334KB     62h     18h  TOTAL