Handy exim mailqueue commands, examples

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Please share veriffied exim commands which helps to manage exim mail queue

show exim statistics

eximstats -ne -nr -nt /var/log/exim_mainlog

show mail queue

exim -bp

show exim folders/queue data usage:

du -h /var/spool/exim --max-depth=1

flush mail queue

exim -qff

show mail body

exim -Mvb MessageID

show mail headers

exim -Mvh MessageID

Delete all "Frozen" mails in queue
1)

exiqgrep -zi | xargs exim -Mrm

2)

/usr/sbin/exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm

Delete failed delivery messages to (likely) non-existent senders:

exiqgrep -i -f '<>' | xargs exim -Mrm

Find & delete messages where recipient contains

exiqgrep -r [email protected] | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm

Find & delete messages where sender contains

exiqgrep -f [email protected] | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm

Find & delete messages of speciffied email user:

grep -lr '[email protected]' /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

Show folders which sent most emails in last hours

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

may list all system mail? then we can delete ( | xargs exim -Mrm )

exiqgrep -i -f '<System>'