sendmail, 4th Edition

Printing the Queue in Verbose Mode

The -v command-line switch can be used in combination with the -bp switch to cause sendmail to also print additional details about the queued messages. To begin, the usual heading shows a new item:

----Q-ID---- --Size-- -Priority- -----Q-Time----- ---------Sender/Recipient-----
----
dB928Xl04182     354     54320 Fri Mar 15 08:32 [e-mail]
                                  [e-mail]
dB928RR04181*   1972     39020 Fri Mar 15 08:45 [e-mail]
      8BITMIME   (Timed out waiting to connect to wash.dc.gov)
                                  [e-mail]
dB928RR04192-     23     30001+Fri Mar 15 09:32 [e-mail]
                 (Timed out waiting to connect to wash.dc.gov)
                                  [e-mail]
                               (---you---)
                                   bob

The Priority is the value from the P line (P line on page 453) in the qf file. Printing the queue does not change a message’s priority, whereas processing the queue does. See the RecipientFactor option (RecipientFactor on page 1077) for a description of how the priority is calculated.

Verbose mode also causes a + to print after the Priority (as in the third item in the example) if a warning message has been sent. See the Timeout.queuewarn option (Timeout on page 1097) for a description of how messages time out.

If any R line is preceded by a controlling user (the C line in the qf file, C line on page 447), verbose mode causes that controlling user’s name to be put in parentheses and prepended to the recipient name. The third item in the preceding example illustrates this.

Prior to V8.8 sendmail, the M line error messages were ...