EXIQGREP(8)

💖 EXIQGREP(8) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the exiqgrep page from the System Manager's Manual (section 8, system administration stuff, iykyk) and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

exiqgrep — search in the exim queue 🔍

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

exiqgrep [-h] [-C file] [-f regexp] [-r regexp] [-s regexp] [-y seconds]
[-o seconds] [-z] [-x] [-G queuename] [-c] [-l] [-i] [-b] [-R] [-a]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So exiqgrep is a Perl script and it's literally built to let you grep inside the exim queue output. 💅

And here's the slay part: unlike exiqsumm, it invokes exim -bpu itself, so you do not have to pipe anything into it. No pipe. None. She does it herself, main character energy 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — print help 🫶
• -C <config> — tell it which exim.conf to use
• -E <path> — give it a path for the exim binary, which overrides the built-in one 🔧
• -f <regexp> — match the sender address (and heads up bestie, that field is wrapped in < >) 💌
• -r <regexp> — match the recipient address 📬
• -s <regexp> — match against the size field from the long output 📏
• -y <seconds> — message younger than ⏱️
• -o <seconds> — message older than ⌛
• -z — frozen messages only, so it excludes the non-frozen ones 🧊
• -x — non-frozen messages only, so it excludes the frozen ones 🔥
• -G <queuename> — match in the given queue only 📮
• -c — display the match count 🔢
• -l — long format, and yes this is the default 💖
• -i — message IDs only 🏷️
• -b — brief format ✨
• -R — reverse order 🔄
• -a — all recipients, including the delivered ones 📦

⚠️ real talk: you gotta give at least one selection option, or either the -c option or the -h option. Otherwise?? nothing. periodt.

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

ngl this manual page needs a major re-work 😭. If somebody out there knows better groff than them and has more experience writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated. like fr fr, they're asking 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• exim(8)
• /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

This manual page was stitched together from the source code by Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, using the exiqsumm man page by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others, so no gatekeeping 💜).

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this lil icon dropped way back on January 27, 2022, and it's living in the Debian exim4-base corner of the world. go grep that queue, you're doing amazing sweetie 💖✨🦋