topic Re: mqueue in Operating System - HP-UX

mqueue

David Crowe — Fri, 11 May 2001 11:50:12 GMT

Is there a way to monitor the number of messages that are in mqueue? I would like to get an idea as to how many messages are being queued for an extended period of time.

Re: mqueue

Pedro Sousa — Fri, 11 May 2001 12:20:20 GMT

Hi David.
I'm not sure of what you want, but if you only wish to see the mail queue:
"sendmail -bp" or "mailq"
to process the queued messages:
sendmail -q -v

The queued messages are stored in /var/spool/mqueue/*

good luck.

Re: mqueue

Ossie de Jongh — Thu, 17 May 2001 11:35:20 GMT

easy as that ! :)

Re: mqueue

Robin Wakefield — Fri, 18 May 2001 11:58:34 GMT

For a count of the number of "deferred" messages, try:

cd /var/spool/mqueue
find . -name "qf*" | xargs grep "^M" | wc -l

(the M line details why the message could not be delivered)

or

find . -name "qf*" | xargs grep "^N[1-9]" | wc -l

(the N line is the retry count)

Robin.

Re: mqueue

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Fri, 18 May 2001 12:02:31 GMT

Try mailstats.

I guess it need to be configured.

See man mailstats

Re: mqueue

avsrinivas_1 — Wed, 23 May 2001 07:20:21 GMT

use mailq -v to get the mails queued currently.
u can write a script to call the mailq -q and
append the output to a file. later add this
to the cron to get the queued mail status for a period of time.

hope this solves ur need.