mailq - print the mail queue
SYNOPSIS
mailq [-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 possi
ble 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 mes
sage is being processed for the first time. The status
characters are either * to indicate the job is being pro
cessed; 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:
-v Print verbose information. This adds the priority
of the message and a single character indicator
(``+'' or blank) indicating whether a warning mes
sage has been sent on the first line of the mes
sage. 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 mes
sage and the name of the alias this command
expanded from, if any.
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.
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