`mailq`

print the mail queue

Syntax:

mailq [-v]

Options:

-v: Print verbose information. This adds the priority of the message and a single character indicator (+ or blank) that tells 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 executed on behalf of this message as well as the name of the alias this command expanded from, if any.

Description:

The mailq utility 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; the error message won't be present if the mail message is being processed for the first time. The remaining lines show message recipients, one per line.

Note that mailq is identical to the command:

sendmail -bp

Files:

/etc/aliases: The mail aliases file.

Errors:

0: Success.
>0: An error occurred.

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