NAME

mailq − print mail queue for sendmail

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/mailq

DESCRIPTION

mailq prints the mail queue collected by the sendmail.  The following is sample output from mailq:

Mail Queue (2 requests)
--QID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
AA02491     1260 Thu Oct  1 09:58 <sender@somewhere.com>
(Deferred: Connection refused by host1.thisplace.com)
  <user1@host1.thisplace.com>
AA02240      288 Thu Oct  1 09:46 <user2@host2.thisplace.com>
(Deferred: Connection refused by host1.thisplace.com)
  <user3@host1.thisplace.com>

If there is no mail in the queue, mailq prints

Mail queue is empty

If there is no queue, mailq prints

No queue to print

mailq is a link to sendmail; sendmail −bp produces the same output. 

SEE ALSO

sendmail(1M)

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