mailq(ADMN)

Syntax

Description

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.

Status characters indicate the following:

*

the job is being processed

X

the load is too high to process the job

-

the job is too young to process.

mailq is equivalent to:

/usr/lib/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 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.

Files

/usr/spool/mqueue/

the mail queue

See also