MAILQ linux command manual

MAILQ(1)                                                           MAILQ(1)



NAME
       mailq - print the mail queue

SYNOPSIS
       mailq [-Ac] [-q...]  [-v]

DESCRIPTION
       Mailq  prints  a summary of the mail messages queued for future deliv-
       ery.

       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''  infor-
              mation;  this shows who will own any programs that are executed
              on behalf of this message and the name of the alias  this  com-
              mand 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 ALSO
       sendmail(8)

HISTORY
       The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.



                         $Date: 2002/09/26 23:03:39 $                MAILQ(1)