On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:52 AM, southpaw3229 wrote: > > I send out permission based emails and i have also registered with > AOL's bulk > email regulatory system. When a AOL member flags my emails as spam, > AOL > sends me an email with the message ID only. I need to search the > exim logs > by message ID, so i can get the exact email address that flagged me > as spam > and remove them from the email database. > > I've search all over the web, and all i've found is a command to > search the > Que by message ID, but not the logs. here is what i've found, which > doesn't > help me - # exim -Mvh <E1KpPNg-0006SD-Cj> > > I'm also a Unix newbie, so if anyone has a command for me, please > include > exactly what i need to type into SSH. > > thanks
Hello southpaw, welcome to the world of *nix! What you'll want to do is filter the maillog for the message ID (typically found in /var/log/maillog or /var/log/exim/mainlog depending on your OS's specific setup). You'll use the command line tools "cat" and "grep" to accomplish this. Here's a link to a good primer on these tools: http://www.networkclue.com/os/Linux/commands/grep.aspx Cheers, Andrew -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
