{"id":811,"date":"2013-01-21T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2013\/01\/21\/view-a-summary-of-the-exim-mail-queue\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:23:52","slug":"view-a-summary-of-the-exim-mail-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/view-a-summary-of-the-exim-mail-queue\/","title":{"rendered":"View a summary of the Exim mail queue"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this article I’m going to go over how you can view a summary of the current Exim mail queue on your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. This will give you a quick glance of what domains have the most mailing activity currently going on.<\/p>\n

If you’ve read one of my previous articles on either how to manage the Exim mail queue via SSH<\/a>, or managing the Exim mail queue in WHM<\/a>, then you should know how to view and manage the mail queue on your server. However in this article I’m going to talk about getting a full summary of your Exim mail queue so that you can get a quick rough idea of where the most email activity is being generated from on your server.<\/p>\n

In order to follow along with the steps below you’ll need to have root access<\/a> to either your VPS or dedicated server so that you have access to the Exim commands we’ll be running.<\/p>\n

Viewing current Exim mail queue summary<\/h2>\n

Using the steps below I’ll show you how to view a summary of the messages currently in your Exim mail queue on your server.<\/p>\n

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  1. Login to your server via SSH<\/a> as the root user.<\/li>\n
  2. Run the following command to view the summary of the current Exim mail queue:
    \nexim -bp | exiqsumm | egrep -v \"--|Volume|^$\" | sort -bg | awk '{print \"Volume: \" $1 \" t Domain: \" $5}'<\/code>
    \nCode breakdown:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    exim -bp<\/th>\nRun the exim<\/strong> command with the -bp<\/strong> flag to show the current Exim mail queue.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    exiqsumm<\/th>\nUse the exiqsumm<\/strong> command to summarize the output from the Exim mail queue.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    egrep -v “–|Volume|^$” | sort -bg<\/th>\nUse the egrep -v<\/strong> command to not display any lines that include text we have specified. In this case lines that have at least two dashes —<\/strong>, the word Volume<\/strong>, or any lines that are blank identified by a carrot ^<\/strong> which indicates the beginning of a line, and a dollar symbol $<\/strong> indicating the end of a line.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    awk ‘{print “Volume: ” $1 ” t Domain: ” $5}’<\/th>\nUse the awk<\/strong> command to print out the word Volume: <\/strong> followed by the $1<\/strong>st column which is the total number of messages in the queue. Then print Domain: <\/strong> followed by the $5<\/strong>th column of data which is the domain name.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    You should get back something that looks similar to this:<\/p>\n

    Volume: 70 Domain: yahoo.com
    \nVolume: 227 Domain: gmail.com
    \nVolume: 461 Domain: example.com
    \nVolume: 1402 Domain: TOTAL<\/code><\/p>\n

    So in this case we can see that in total we’ve got 1,402<\/strong> messages in our Exim mail queue, 461<\/strong> of those waiting to deliver for our example.com<\/strong> domain, and then 227<\/strong> waiting to deliver to gmail.com<\/strong> accounts, and 70<\/strong> to yahoo.com<\/strong> accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You should now be able to login to your server at anytime to check on the current mail activity going on in your Exim mail queue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In this article I’m going to go over how you can view a summary of the current Exim mail queue on your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. This will give you a quick glance of what domains have the most mailing activity currently going on. If you’ve read one of my previous articles Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nView a summary of the Exim mail queue | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this article I'm going to go over how you can view a summary of the current Exim mail queue on your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. 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