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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 following 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.  Moreover,
       status messages for each recipient are printed if available.

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

SEE ALSO
  sendmail(8)

HISTORY
  The mailq command appeared in 4.0BSD.

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