MAILQ(1)MAILQ(1)NAMEmailq - print the mail queue
SYNOPSISmailq [-Ac] [-q...] [-v]
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 with a possible status character, 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 either * to
indicate the job is being processed; X to indicate that the load is too
high to process the job; and - to indicate that the job is too young to
process. The following lines show message recipients, one per line.
Mailq is identical to ``sendmail -bp''.
The relevant options are as follows:
-Ac Show the mail submission queue specified in /etc/mail/submit.cf
instead of the MTA queue specified in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
-q[!]I substr
Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a substring
of the queue id 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 mes-
sage and a single character indicator (``+'' or blank) indicat-
ing whether a warning message has been sent on the first line of
the message. Additionally, extra lines may be intermixed with
the recipients indicating the ``controlling user'' information;
this shows who will own any programs that are executed on behalf
of this message and the name of the alias this command expanded
from, if any. Moreover, status messages for each recipient are
printed if available.
The mailq utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSOsendmail(8)HISTORY
The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.
$Date: 2006/03/24 14:36:06 $ MAILQ(1)
