q line

Reason an envelope was quarantined V8.13 and later

When an envelope is quarantined (Queue Quarantining on page 438) the reason is stated in this q line. The q line is not part of a qf file, but is actually in the quarantined hf file.

qreason

Here, the reason can be manually inserted using sendmail’s command line, or automatically inserted via the access database or rule sets.

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