Command to view the queue

Command to view the queue

To view the exim mail queue issue the following command:

mailq

OR

exim -bp

If exim is in /usr/sbin and /usr/sbin is not in your path, you'll need to prefix the command with the full path like so:

/usr/sbin/exim -bp

Example output

The outut from the above commands will look something like so:

4d  1.2K 1Ka6u5-00032Z-Eb <from@example.com>

to@example.com

62h  1.2K 1KaRH0-0007QZ-B5 <from@example.com>

to@example.com

3h   22K 1KbLHr-0004ev-An <from@example.com>

to@example.com