NAME
mailq — prints the mail queue
DESCRIPTION
mailq
prints a summary of the mail messages queued for future delivery.
The first line printed for each message
shows the internal identifier used on this host
for the message,
the size of the message in bytes,
the date and time the message was accepted into the queue,
and the envelope sender of the message.
The second line shows the error message that caused this message
to be retained in the queue;
it will not be present if the message is being processed
for the first time.
The status characters are:
- *
to indicate that the job is being processed
- X
to indicate that the load is too high to process the job
- -
to indicate that the job is too new in the queue to process.
The output lines that follow the second line show the message recipients,
one per line.
mailq
is identical to
sendmail -bp.
Options
The supported
mailq
options are:
- -Ac
Show the mail submission queue specified in the
/etc/mail/submit.cf
file instead of the MTA queue specified in the
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
file.
- -qL
Show the lost items in the mail queue instead of normal queue items.
- -qQ
Show the quarantined items in the mail queue instead
of the normal queue items.
- -q[!]I substr
Limit processed jobs to those containing
substr
as a substring of the queue ID or not when
!
is specified.
- -q[!]Q substr
Limit processed jobs to quarantined jobs containing
substr
as a substring of the quarantine reason or not when
!
is specified.
- -q[!]R substr
Limit processed jobs to those containing
substr
as a substring of one of the recipients or not when
!
is specified.
- -q[!]S substr
Limit processed jobs to those containing
substr
as a substring of the sender or not when
!
is specified.
- -v
Print verbose information.
This adds the priority of the message and
a single character indicator
(+
or blank)
indicating whether a warning message has been sent
on the first line of the message.
In addition, extra lines may be intermixed with the recipients
indicating the `controlling user' information.
This
shows who owns the programs that are executed
on behalf of this message
and the name of the alias this command expanded from, if any.
RETURN VALUE
The
mailq
utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
AUTHOR
mailq
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley,
and originally
appeared in 4.0BSD.
FILES
- /var/spool/mqueue/*
mail queue files for
sendmail
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