Category: Exim

  • Flush exim mail queue

    To flush the mail queue, run the command

    exim -q

    Force another queue run

    exim -qf

    Force another queue run and attempt to flush the frozen message

    exim -qff

    See exim

  • How do I view what exim is doing?

    Exim comes with a utility called “exiwhat” which will display what each instance of exim is currently involved with. 

    exiwhat

    The output will look similar to this

    exim mail server exiwhat

    To monitor the exim log in realtime, you may use the tail command

    tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog

    See Exim, exiwhat