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6 mailq - print the mail queue
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9 mailq [-Ac] [-q...] [-v]
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12 Mailq prints a summary of the mail messages queued for future delivery.
13 The first line printed for each message shows the internal identifier
15 used on this host for the message with a possible status character, the
16 size of the message in bytes, the date and time the message was
17 accepted into the queue, and the envelope sender of the message. The
18 second line shows the error message that caused this message to be
19 retained in the queue; it will not be present if the message is being
20 processed for the first time. The status characters are either * to
21 indicate the job is being processed; X to indicate that the load is too
22 high to process the job; and - to indicate that the job is too young to
23 process. The following lines show message recipients, one per line.
24 Mailq is identical to ``sendmail -bp''.
26 The relevant options are as follows:
28 -Ac Show the mail submission queue specified in /etc/mail/submit.cf
30 instead of the MTA queue specified in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
31 -qL Show the "lost" items in the mail queue instead of the normal
33 queue items.
34 -qQ Show the quarantined items in the mail queue instead of the nor‐
36 mal queue items.
37 -q[!]I substr
39 Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a substring
40 of the queue id or not when ! is specified.
41 -q[!]Q substr
43 Limit processed jobs to quarantined jobs containing substr as a
44 substring of the quarantine reason or not when ! is specified.
45 -q[!]R substr
47 Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a substring
48 of one of the recipients or not when ! is specified.
49 -q[!]S substr
51 Limit processed jobs to those containing substr as a substring
52 of the sender or not when ! is specified.
53 -v Print verbose information. This adds the priority of the mes‐
55 sage and a single character indicator (``+'' or blank) indicat‐
56 ing whether a warning message has been sent on the first line of
57 the message. Additionally, extra lines may be intermixed with
58 the recipients indicating the ``controlling user'' information;
59 this shows who will own any programs that are executed on behalf
60 of this message and the name of the alias this command expanded
61 from, if any. Moreover, status messages for each recipient are
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63 Several sendmail.cf options influence the behavior of the mailq util‐
65 ity: The number of items printed per queue group is restricted by
66 MaxQueueRunSize if that value is set. The status character * is not
67 printed for some values of QueueSortOrder, e.g., filename, random, mod‐
68 ification, and none, unless a -q option is used to limit the processed
69 jobs.
70 The mailq utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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77 The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.
78 $Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:55 $ MAILQ(1)