HP-UX Mailing Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering Sendmail
Troubleshooting Sendmail
Chapter 2 101
The first entry is a message with queue ID h3TA9Bb29701 and a size of
86 bytes. The message arrived in the queue on Wednesday, February 9,
at 7:08 a.m. The sender was janet. She sent a message to the recipients
[e-mail] and [e-mail]. Sendmail has already
attempted to route the message, but the message remains in the queue
because its SMTP connection was refused. This usually means that the
SMTP server is temporarily not running on the remote host, but it also
occurs if the remote host never runs an SMTP server. Sendmail attempts
to deliver this message the next time the mail queue is processed.
Two other messages in the queue are also routed for delivery the next
time the mail queue is processed.
If mailq is run in verbose mode (with the -v option), then when it prints
the queue, it will also show the priority of each queued message.
Files in the Mail Queue
The files that Sendmail creates in the mail queue all have names of the
following format:
ymdhmsrXXXXX
where
y – Denotes the year
m – Denotes the month
d – Denotes the day
h – Denotes hour
m – Denotes minute,
s – Denotes second
h3TA9Bb29701 86 Wed Feb 9 07:08 janet
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
h3TAATe29713 1482 Tue Feb 15 7:05 carole
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
h3TABWB29731 10169 Tue Feb 15 8:10 chuck
[e-mail]
sys6!sysloc@njm