HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

mailq(1) mailq(1)

NAME

mailq - prints the mail queue

SYNOPSIS

mailq [-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, 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:

* to indicate that the job is being processed

X to indicate that the load is too high to process the job

- to indicate that the job is too new in the queue to process.

The output lines that follow the second line show the message recipients, one per line.

mailq is identical to sendmail -bp.

The options supported are:

Options

-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.

In addition, extra lines may be intermixed with the recipients indicating the ‘‘controlling user’’

information. This shows who owns the programs that are executed on behalf of this message and

the name of the alias this command expanded from, if any.

RETURN VALUE

The

mailq utility exits with 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

AUTHOR

mailq was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and originally appeared in 4.0BSD.

FILES

/var/spool/mqueue/*

mail queue ﬁles