Here are some useful exim commands. They’re useful if you have an overloaded queue and need to clear it out, or find out why the messagse are being piled up.
- exim -M id #Try to send the message with id id
- exim -qf #Tell exim to process the entire queue again
- exim -qff #same as qf, but it will flush the frozen messages
- exim -Mvl id #view the message log for message id
- exim -Mvh id #view message id‘s headers
- exim -Mvb id #view message id‘s body
- exim -Mrm id #remove message id from the queue
- exim -Mg id #fail and send a bounce to the sender
- exim -bp | exiqsumm #Print summary of the messages in the queue
- exiwhat #show what exim is doing right now
- exim -bpc #show number of messages in the queue
- exim -bp #print list of messages in the queue
