View the body and/or header of a queued exim message

Email headers are nothing but HTML snippet which contains information of the sender, recipient, email’s route. This article will learn how to view the body and the header of a queued Exim message.

How to view exim queued email header?

Use the following command to check the Exim email header,

exim -Mvh <Email message ID>

Example,

How to view exim queued email body?

For the email body, the command is similar. Just use a ‘b‘ for the body, rather than ‘h’ from the previous command,

exim -Mvb <Email message ID>

Conclusion

Now that we’ve gone over how to view header and body for a queued Exim email. This is a standard practice which is performed by the server administrator to troubleshoot issues related to the email server.

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