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How to find the number of requests being processed in a postfix mail queue

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Posted Feb 01 2010 10:44 AM

If you have a very active postfix MTA, it can take a while for the number of requests that it is currently processing to scroll past the screen.

If you just want a quick answer of how many messages it is processing (and how big the queue is), try typing the following in a bash command line:

$ mailq | tail -1


Which should give you something like the following:

-- 132305 Kbytes in 5431 Requests.


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