The following commands are very useful while troubleshooting the email issues :
To see total number of mails in the Queue : exim -bpc To Print all mails in the Queue : exim -bp To see the summary of all mails in the Queue : exim -bp | exiqsumm To see the messages from a particular user : exiqgrep -f user@domain To see the route for a particular email address : exim -bt gopu@domain.com To see the mail content : exim -Mvb Mail_ID Remove all mails from the Queue for a particular user : exiqgrep -i -f user@domain.com | xargs exim -Mrm Useful command : eximstats -ne -nr /var/log/exim_mainlog To check the number of messages in the queue: #exim -bpc To check the listing of the messages in the queue (time queued, size, message id, sender, recipient): #exim -bp To check the summary of messages in the queue (count, volume, oldest, newest, domain, and total): #exim -bp| exiqsumm To forcefully send all the mails : exiqgrep -zi | xargs exim -M To check the current status of Exim: #exiwhat To search the queue for messages from a specific sender: #exigrep -f user@domainname.com To search the queue for a specific recipient: #exigrep -r user@domainname.com To print the message id of the entire queue: #exiqgrep -i To remove a message from the queue: #exim -Mrm <message id> To Freeze a message: #exim -Mf <message id> To forcefully deliver a message: #exim -M <message id> To force a message to Freeze and bounce as “Canceled by Admin” : #exim -Mg <message id> To remove all frozen mails: #exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm To freeze all queued mail for a given sender: #exiqgrep -i -f user@domain.com | xargs exim -Mf To view a message body: #exim -Mvb <message id> ***************** Scripts to check spamming in Exim mail server 1. To check the number of emails present in the queue: # exim -bpc 2. To check the emails present in the queue with the mail id and sender ID: # exim -bp # exim -bp | less 3. To view the header of a particular email using mail ID: # exim -MvH mail_id 4. To view the body of a particular email using mail ID: # exim -Mvb mail_id 5. To view a message's logs: # exim -Mvl mail_id 6. To trace path: # exim -d -bt user@domain.com 7. To get sorted list of email sender in exim queue: # exim -bpr | grep "<" | awk {'print $4'} |cut -d "<" -f 2 | cut -d ">" -f 1 | sort -n | uniq -c| sort -n 8. To check the script that will originate spam mails: # grep "cwd=" /var/log/exim_mainlog|awk '{for(i=1;i<=10;i++){print $i}}'|sort| uniq -c|grep cwd|sort -n 9. If we need to find out exact spamming script. To do this, run following command: # ps auxwwwe | grep user | grep --color=always "/home/user/public_html/templates/" | head 10. To delete the emails of a specific user: # grep -lr 'user@domain.com' /var/spool/exim/input/ | sed -e 's/^.*\/\([a-zA-Z0-9-]*\)-[DH]$/\1/g' | xargs exim -Mrm # exim -bp | grep "user_email-account" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm 11. To delete Frozen emails from the email queue: # grep -R -l '*** Frozen' /var/spool/exim/msglog/*|cut -b26-|xargs exim -Mrm # exim -bp| grep frozen | awk '{print $3}'| xargs exim -Mrm # exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm 12. To delete Spam emails from the email queue: # grep -R -l [SPAM] /var/spool/exim/msglog/*|cut -b26-|xargs exim -Mrm 13. To check the no. of frozen mails: # exiqgrep -z -c 14. To check exim logs: # tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog 15. Force delivery of one message: # exim -M mail_id 16. Force another queue run: # exim -qf 17. Force another queue run and attempt to flush frozen messages: # exim –qff 18. Forcefully send emails for a particular domain : #exim -v -Rff domain
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