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
       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 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.   Moreover,  status
              messages for each recipient are printed if available.

       Several  sendmail.cf options influence the behavior of the mailq utility: 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, modification, 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)