NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     mailq - print the mail queue

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

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

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     mailq prints a summary of the mail messages queued  for  future delivery.
     It may only be run by the superuser.

     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 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.

     -qL     Show the ``lost'' items in the mail queue instead of
the 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.   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 ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     mailer.conf(5), sendmail(8)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.

OpenBSD      3.6                       September     26,     2002