EXIM useful commands

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To see the total number of mails in the mailing queue:

Exim count mail in queue

exim -bpc

 

Use the following to see which scripts are sending out mail (helps keeping an eye on mailsenders and possible malware):

List the scripts sending mails and count for each one

grep cwd /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep -v /var/spool | awk -F"cwd=" '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

To clear the mailing queue:

Exim clear the mail queue

 

exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

Or even better, a “cleaner” approach:

exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm

To clear the Exim mailing statistics:

Clear Exim Statistics

cd /var/log

rm -fr exim*.1

rm -fr exim*.2

rm -fr exim*.3

rm -fr exim*.4

rm -fr exim_mainlog ; touch exim_mainlog ; chown mailnull.mail exim_mainlog

rm -fr exim_paniclog ; touch exim_paniclog ; chown mailnull.mail exim_paniclog

rm -fr exim_rejectlog ; touch exim_rejectlog ; chown mailnull.mail exim_rejectlog

To clean the eximstats MySQL database, enter MySQL with:

Enter the SQL eximstats DB

mysql eximstats

SQL commands (to be used within “mysql>”)

SQL commands to empty the tables

delete from sends;

delete from smtp;

 

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delete from defers;

 

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