Monitoring/security of Exim

Some helpful Exim commands:

Number of emails in the mail queue:

[root@server~]#exim -bpc

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Frozen mails in a Queue

[root@server~]#exim -bp | grep -c frozen

[root@server~]#exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l

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Remoing all frozen messages:

[root@server~]#exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

or

[root@server~]#exim -bpru | grep “frozen” | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm

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Deliver forecfully emails

[root@server~]#exim -qff -v -C /etc/exim.conf &

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Remove mails from sender

[root@server~]#exiqgrep -i -f (mail add here) | xargs exaim -Mrm

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Remove mails from Recipient

[root@server~]#exiqgrep -i -r (mail add here) | xargs exaim -Mrm

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

[root@server~]#exim -bp | exiqsumm | sort -n

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Delete mails for particular domain which is largest email sender you got by previous step (4).

[root@server~]#exiqgrep -i -r domainname.com | xargs exim -Mrm

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Number of emails sent by perticular domain greping by date:

[root@server~]#grep “Sept 18″ /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep domainname.com | wc -l

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Get the content of an email by message id.

[root@server~]#exim -Mvb messageid

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Force delivery of single email

[root@server~]#exim -M email-id

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Delete particular message id

[root@server~]#exim -Mg messageid

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Delete the entire mail queue

[root@server~]#exim -bpru | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm

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Check all mails by username

[root@server~]#exigrep -u username /var/log/exim_mainlog

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View an email’s header

[root@server~]#exim -Mvh message-id

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View an email’s body

[root@server~]#exim -Mvb message-id

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Deliver all emails in mailqueue forcefully

[root@server~]#exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -M

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