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 deliv-
       ery.

       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 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''  infor-
	      mation;  this shows who will own any programs that are executed
	      on behalf of this message and the name of the alias  this	 com-
	      mand 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
       sendmail(8)

HISTORY
       The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.



			 $Date: 2002/06/27 22:47:34 $		     MAILQ(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. mailq
2. host
3. size
4. date
5. time
6. as
7. id
8. who