How to Manage Exim Mail Queue? |

Exim is the mail software that manages all the email delivery on your server. This software is used by the user having root administration or those who are using VPS or Dedicated server. WHM is the control panel used by root users to manage multiple task related to accounts.

Today, in this tutorial we will discuss about the procedure to manage exim mail queue in the server.

This can be done in any of the two ways, i.e,

From WHM
With SSH commands

#1. From WHM

You can manage the exim mail queue from WHM of root user. Let us see the procedure in detail.

Login to your WHM root panel.
You will be directed to WHM feature list page. From here, go inside Email section.

On the next page list of tools will appear. Select Mail Queue Manager.

You will be directed to next page where list of all queued mails will appear. You can filter or search for any email if required.

From here, you can select any or all the queued mails and then perform an action as Deliver Selected or Delete Selected as required. Refer to the given image.

Now, the queued mails can be managed via SSH commands as well. Let us see the procedure in detail.

#2. With SSH Commands

Login to SSH with root credentials.
You can use exim command with argument to get the information related to queued emails.

To know the total number of queued emails, execute exim -bpc command.
Manage Queued Emails via SSH
To know the detailed information about queued emails use exim -bp command.
Get Detailed Information about Queued Emails
To diaplay the summary of mails in the queue, you can use the following command.

exim -bp | exiqsumm

To check the reason of emails which are not being delivered, execute the following command with the Exim Message ID.

exigrep -I -l message_ID /var/log/exim_mainlog

You can resend any queued mail forcefully by using the below given command with message id.

exim -M message_ID

To check the Exim’s current activity, you can execute the following command.

exiwhat

You can clear one or all queued emails by using any of the below given commands.

To clear selected emails from the queue, run the following command.
```
exim -Mrm message_ID
```
To clear all the queued emails, run the following command.
```
find /var/spool/exim/input/ -type f -exec rm -vf {} \;
```

With the above given procedures and commands, you can easily manage exim mail queue from WHM and SSH. Do share it with your colleagues if you find it working. Also share your suggestions and drop your queries to start the discussion on the related topic. Lets connect on social media with the below links.

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#1. From WHM

#2. With SSH Commands

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