Exim Mail queue monitoring Script

Exim is a mail transfer agent mainly used in cPanel and DirectAdmin servers. Nowadays spamming is a common issue and an Exim Mail queue monitoring Script will help you to find these kinds of problems in the beginning itself.

First, you need to create a script file, say “mailqueue.sh”

• vim mailqueue.sh

Read more about VI editor here.

Add the following script to the above file.

• #!/bin/bash
• NUM=`/usr/sbin/exim -bpc`
• if [ $NUM -gt 100 ]
• then echo "Current Email Queue size is $NUM" | /bin/mail -s "Email Queue Critical on $HOSTNAME" [email protected]
• fi

Please replace [email protected] with the desired email address.

Give excecution permission

• chmod +x mailqueue.sh

Run this script after certain period using cronjobs.

• 0 * * * * /bin/sh /root/mailqueue.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

This cronjob runs every hour.