by
Rohit Patel

Monitoring/Security of Exim

Monitoring/Security of Exim

Monitoring/Security of Exim

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1. Number of emails in the mail queue:

[root@server~]# exim -bpc

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2. Frozen mails in a Queue

[root@server~]# exim -bp | grep -c frozen
[root@server~]# exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l

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3. Remoing all frozen messages:

[root@server~]# exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm
or
[root@server~]# exim -bpru | grep “frozen” | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm

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4. Deliver forecfully emails:

[root@server~]# exim -qff -v -C /etc/exim.conf &

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5. Remove mails from sender:

[root@server~]# exiqgrep -i -f (mail add here) | xargs exaim -Mrm

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6. Remove mails from Recipient:

[root@server~]# exiqgrep -i -r (mail add here) | xargs exaim -Mrm

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7. Below command will display total number of emails send as well receive statistics per domain basis:

[root@server~]# exim -bp | exiqsumm | sort -n

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8. Delete mails for particular domain which is largest email sender you got by previous step (4):

[root@server~]# exiqgrep -i -r domainname.com | xargs exim -Mrm

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9. Number of emails sent by perticular domain greping by date:

[root@server~]# grep “Sept 18″ /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep domainname.com | wc -l

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10. Get the content of an email by message id:

[root@server~]# exim -Mvb messageid

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11. Force delivery of single email:

[root@server~]# exim -M email-id

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12. Delete particular message id:

[root@server~]# exim -Mg messageid

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13. Delete the entire mail queue:

[root@server~]# exim -bpru | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm

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14. Check all mails by username:

[root@server~]# exigrep -u username /var/log/exim_mainlog

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15. View an email’s header:

[root@server~]# exim -Mvh message-id

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16. View an email’s body:

[root@server~]# exim -Mvb message-id

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17. Deliver all emails in mailqueue forcefully:

[root@server~]# exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -M

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