Exim memiliki perintah untuk proses pengecekan maupun penghapusan antrian emailnya. Berikut beberapa penggunaan perintah exim yang umum digunakan untuk pengecekan pesan, penghapusan dan lainnya.
Cek antrian email.
exim -bp
Cek total antrian email.
exim -bpc
Cek total antrian email berdasarkan sender email
exim -bp|awk '{print $4}'|sort -n|uniq -c|sort -n
Cek header suatu pesan email berdasarkan message id nya.
exim -Mvh [message-id]
Cek body atau isi suatu pesan email berdasarkan message id nya.
exim -Mvb [message-id]
Hapus suatu antrian email berdasarkan message id nya.
exim -Mrm [message-id]
Hapus antrian email dengan status frozen.
exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm
Hapus antrian email berdasarkan suatu alamat pengirim email tertentu.
exiqgrep -i -f [email protected] | xargs exim -Mrm
Hapus antrian email beradasarkan user email pengirim yang tidak diketahui “<>”
exim -bp |grep "<>" | awk '{print $3}'|xargs exim -Mrm
Hapus seluruh antrian email
exim -bpu | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm
Jika antrian email cukup banyak, maka list pesan email yang terhapus akan tertampil sebagai berikut.
Message 1RORrq-001paP-Ug has been removed Message 1RORut-001rEc-LY has been removed Message 1RORvN-001rdN-Gs has been removed Message 1RORvT-001rem-R9 has been removed Message 1RORvZ-001rgb-Dc has been removed Message 1RORvi-001rih-M4 has been removed Message 1RORw8-001rpr-Lp has been removed Message 1ROS0o-001uNy-Jl has been removed Message 1ROS3l-001w1j-Dt has been removed Message 1ROS3u-001w4P-NV has been removed Message 1ROS5r-001x5m-4Q has been removed Message 1ROS67-001x8O-Q6 has been removed Message 1ROS6T-001xBu-N8 has been removed Message 1ROS9Q-001zAP-VW has been removed Message 1ROSA7-001zd3-1Y has been removed Message 1ROSFa-0022T3-Fl has been removed Message 1ROSFb-0022TM-Ch has been removed Message 1ROSJz-0024wf-W1 has been removed Message 1ROSRU-0029FD-L2 has been removed Message 1ROSRc-0029IB-JX has been removed Message 1ROSS2-0029PJ-BC has been removed Message 1ROSSA-0029Rk-Un has been removed Message 1ROSTg-002APg-ER has been removed Message 1ROSU9-002Ap8-Oe has been removed Message 1ROSVH-002BRX-6x has been removed Message 1ROSVj-002BZP-2E has been removed Message 1ROSX8-002CTN-DZ has been removed
Dalam kondisi antrian email yang sudah cukup tinggi, ribuan atau bahkan jutaan antrian email maka proses tersebut tidak begitu efektif. Alternatif lain bisa menggunakan tahapan proses berikut.
cd /var/spool/exim cp -r input input.old rm -rf input/*
Setelahnya bisa dicek kembali total antrian email.