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 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.

       -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  speci-
              fied.

       -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.

       Several  sendmail.cf  options influence the behavior of the mailq utility: The number of items printed per queue group is
       restricted by MaxQueueRunSize if that value is set.  The status character * is not printed for some values  of  QueueSor-
       tOrder, e.g., filename, random, modification, and none, unless a -q option is used to limit the processed jobs.

       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: 2007/03/22 18:21:27 $                                          MAILQ(1)