MAILQ(1)                   OpenBSD Reference Manual                   MAILQ(1)

NAME
     mailq - print 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 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 fol-
     lowing lines show message recipients, one per line.

     Mailq is identical to ``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.

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

SEE ALSO
     mailer.conf(5), sendmail(8)

HISTORY
     The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.

OpenBSD 2.9                    December 14, 2000                             1
