1.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mailq.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 02/22/94 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MAILQ 1 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm mailq 13.Nd print the mail queue 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm mailq 16.Op Fl v 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18.Nm Mailq 19prints a summary of the mail messages queued for future delivery. 20.Pp 21The first line printed for each message 22shows the internal identifier used on this host 23for the message, 24the size of the message in bytes, 25the date and time the message was accepted into the queue, 26and the envelope sender of the message. 27The second line shows the error message that caused this message 28to be retained in the queue; 29it will not be present if the message is being processed 30for the first time. 31The following lines show message recipients, 32one per line. 33.Pp 34.Nm Mailq 35is identical to 36.Dq Li "sendmail -bp" . 37.Pp 38The options are as follows: 39.Bl -tag -width Ds 40.It Fl v 41Print verbose information. 42This adds the priority of the message and 43a single character indicator (``+'' or blank) 44indicating whether a warning message has been sent 45on the first line of the message. 46Additionally, extra lines may be intermixed with the recipients 47indicating the ``controlling user'' information; 48this shows who will own any programs that are executed 49on behalf of this message 50and the name of the alias this command expanded from, if any. 51.El 52.Pp 53The 54.Nm mailq 55utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 56.Sh SEE ALSO 57.Xr sendmail 8 58.Sh HISTORY 59The 60.Nm mailq 61command appeared in 62.Bx 4.0 . 63