Force Exim to Upgrade on a Cpanel Server

Paul — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:49:21 +0000

If an exim upgrade fails use the following to force a fresh upgrade of exim and then check the exim system status
/scripts/eximup –force
service exim status

How to Enable RBL’s in Exim via CPanel/WHM:

The WHM now allows you to enable Spamhaus (zen.spamhaus.org) and SpamCop via the WHM

Click Exim Configuration Editor

Check both RBL’s

Save your settings

Exim mail queue commands

Paul — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:48:40 +0000

Helpful Exim Commands:

/usr/sbin/exim   -M   email-id        => Force delivery of one message
/usr/sbin/exim -qf                  => Force another queue run
/usr/sbin/exim -qff                 => Force another queue run and attempt to flush the frozen message
/usr/sbin/exim -Mvl   messageID => View the log for the message
/usr/sbin/exim -Mvb messageID => View the body of the message
/usr/sbin/exim -Mvh messageID => View the header of the message
/usr/sbin/exim -Mrm messageID => Remove message without sending any error message
/usr/sbin/exim -Mg messageID   => Giveup and fail message to bounce the message to the Sender

/usr/sbin/exim -bpr | grep “<” | wc -l    =>Number of emails in the que
/usr/sbin/exim -bpr | grep frozen | wc -l   => How many Frozen mails on the queue
/usr/sbin/exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {‘print $3′} | xargs exim -Mrm   => Deleteing Frozen Messages

To flush the exim queue:

1. login to your server via ssh as root.

2. Type: exim -qff

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Force Exim to Upgrade on a Cpanel Server

Exim mail queue commands