How to get list of bounced email addresses from exim_mainlog?

Brooky A

• March 25, 2021 13:53

Hi All, I was hoping it may be possible to get a list of bounced email addresses from the exim log. Does anyone know how I can parse it to do this? Thanks!!!! :)

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • March 25, 2021 19:40

  Hey there! There isn't one command that would give you all the bounces from the logs as they will bounce for different reasons. For example, sending a message to an address that doesn't exist looks like this: 2021-03-25 19:36:21 H=(host.domain.com) [::1]:35794 F= A=dovecot_login:cptest@acicomputers.net rejected RCPT : No Such User Here So you could run a command similar to this to get all of those emails: grep -i "no such user here" /var/log/exim_mainlog
  You'd need to run commands based on the type of bounce you're looking for, and then combine that output together to get a good list. I'm sorry I don't have an easier method to accomplish that.

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  Brooky A

  • March 25, 2021 19:47

  Super helpful thank you!

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