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MAILQ(1)		    General Commands Manual		      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  ac-
       cepted  into  the  queue,  and the envelope sender of the message.  The
       second line shows the error message that	caused this message to be  re-
       tained  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 nor-
	      mal 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 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''  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 util-
       ity: The	number of items	printed	per queue group	is restricted by  Max-
       QueueRunSize  if	 that  value  is  set.	 The status character *	is not
       printed for some	values of QueueSortOrder, e.g.,	filename, random, mod-
       ification, 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:	2013-11-22 20:51:55 $		      MAILQ(1)

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