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

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