Exim commands to manage your email
How to Manage Your Exim Queue
Note:
You must have
You must have
root-level permissions to perform these commands. If you do not, contact your hosting provider for help with your Exim queue.- To determine the total count of mail in the queue, use the
exim -bpccommand. - To remove a single message from the queue, use the
exim -Mrm <MessageID>command: - To remove messages from a specific email account in the mail queue, use the following command:
exiqgrep -f [email protected] -i | xargs exim -Mrm
- To delete the entire queue, use the following command:
exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm
Warning:
This will remove all email from the mail queue, which may include emails you want to send or receive. You cannot recover deleted email
Note:
If you receive a message that an email
is locked, the system is in the process of sending the message. For example, one message could be removed and another one could not:Message 1JoX25-1168Q4-ME has been removed Message ZB3747-P1rn5-23 is locked
To print a list of the messages in the queue, enter:
# exim -bp
To remove a message from the queue, enter:
# exim -Mrm {message-id}
To remove all messages from the queue, enter:
# exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash# exim -bp | exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm
To count messages in queue
# exim -bpc
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