Printing the entries in a sendmail queue
Since I began managing sendmail installations 8-years ago, I have used the mailq command to print the entries in the sendmail queue. While reading through the bat book to find the root cause of my sendmail DNS problems, I came across sendmail’s “-bp” option:
$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
This provides the same results as the mailq command:
$ mailq
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
I am still amazed at how complex the sendmail program is. Rule 0, Rule 3, Rule 5, 8000 macros … ge gads!
bish on June 5th, 2007
Your post suggests that, by aliasing ‘sendmail -bp’ as ‘mailq’, sendmail is made more complex.
A co-worker has aliased ‘ls -l’ as ‘ll’: should we be equally as concerned about the complexity of ‘ls’?