You’ve checked to see what’s sitting in the exim mail queue, but want to check the email’s header and/or body before deleting it from the queue. Use the -Mvh & -Mvb flags to view these.
Getting the message id
Use “exim -bp” or “mailq” to see what’s in the queue to get the message id; you’ll need it when you want to view the header or body.
$ exim -bp 1m 321 1aU276-0001cf-DRchris@example.com
In the above example, 1aU276-0001cf-DR is the message id
Viewing the email header with exim
Run “exim -Mvh [message id]” to see the headers (“h” for header), e.g. using the id above:
$ exim -Mvh 1aU276-0001cf-DR
Viewing the email body with exim
Run “exim -Mvb [message id]” to see the headers (“b” for body), e.g. using the id above:
$ exim -Mvb 1aU276-0001cf-DR