Useful Exim Commands

A list of a few commands useful for managing an exim mail server.

Remove all mail in queue over 7 days old

find /var/spool/exim -atime 7 -exec /bin/rm {} \; 

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 totals):

exim -bp | exiqsumm

Print what Exim is doing right now:

exiwhat

more exim management commands are available here:

http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/exim_cheatsheet.php