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User Commands                                            mailq(1)



NAME
     mailq - print the mail queue

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/bin/mailq [-Ac] [-q subarg] [-v]


DESCRIPTION
     The mailq utility displays a summary of  the  mail  messages
     queued for future delivery.


     The first line displayed for each  mail  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 of the display shows the error mes-
     sage  that  caused this message to be retained in the queue.
     This line will not be displayed if the message is being pro-
     cessed for the first time.


     The mailq utility used to be identical to sendmail -bp.  Now
     it     checks     for     the    authorization    attribute,
     solaris.mail.mailq. If  the  check  for  the  invoking  user
     succeeds,  sendmail -bp is executed with the remaining argu-
     ment vector. Otherwise, an error message  is  printed.  This
     authorization attribute is by default enabled for all users.
     It can be disabled by modifying the Basic Solaris User entry
     in prof_attr(4).

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -Ac              Like sendmail(1M), this flag tells mailq to
                      use  submit.cf rather than sendmail.cf even
                      if  the  operation  mode  does   not  indi-
                      cate  an initial mail submission. This will
                      result     in     the     client      queue
                      /var/spool/clientmqueue   being   displayed
                      rather  than  the  default   server   queue
                      /var/spool/mqueue.


     -qp[time]        Similar to -qtime, except that  instead  of
                      periodically forking a child to process the
                      queue, sendmail forks a  single  persistent
                      child   for   each  queue  that  alternates
                      between processing the queue and  sleeping.
                      The  sleep  time  is given as the argument.
                      The sleep time default  is  1  second.  The
                      process   will  always  sleep  at  least  5



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                      seconds if the queue was empty in the  pre-
                      vious queue run.


     -qf              Processes saved  messages in the queue once
                      and  does not fork(), but runs in the fore-
                      ground.


     -qG name         Processes jobs in the  queue  group  called
                      name only.


     -q[!]I substr    Limits processed jobs to  those  containing
                      substr  as  a substring of the queue id, or
                      not when ! is specified.


     -q[!]R substr    Limits processed jobs to  those  containing
                      substr  as  a substring of one of the reci-
                      pients, or not when ! is specified.


     -q[!]S substr    Limits processed jobs to  those  containing
                      substr as a substring of the sender, or not
                      when ! is specified.


     -v               Prints verbose information. This  adds  the
                      priority  of the message and a single char-
                      acter indicator  (+  or  blank)  indicating
                      whether  a warning message has been sent on
                      the first line of  the  message.  Addition-
                      ally,  extra  lines  may be intermixed with
                      the recipients that indicate the  "control-
                      ling 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  is  expanded  from,  if
                      any.


EXIT STATUS
     0      Successful completion.


     >0     An error occurred.


FILES
     /etc/security/prof_attr    local source for  execution  pro-
                                file attributes



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     /var/spool/mqueue          default server queue


     /var/spool/clientmqueue    client queue


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     _____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |        ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|______________________________|
    | Availability                | service/network/smtp/sendmail|
    |_____________________________|______________________________|


SEE ALSO
     sendmail(1M), prof_attr(4), attributes(5)


































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