EXIQSUMM(8)

💖 EXIQSUMM 💖

okay bestie, so this is exiqsumm, from the System Manager's Manual section 8 — the queue-summarising icon it is 💅

✨ NAME ✨

exiqsumm — Summarising the queue 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

exiqsumm [-a] [-c]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the exiqsumm utility is literally a Perl script, and what it does is read the output of exim -bp and spit out a summary of all the messages chillin' on the queue. so like, the way you actually use it is by running a command like this:

exim -bp | exiqsumm

and the output? one line for every domain that has messages waiting for it, like this adorable little example:

    3   2322   74m   66m  msn.com.example

so what's in that line, you ask? 💖

• the number of messages for that domain
• their total volume
• and the length of time that the oldest and the newest messages have been waiting

by default the output is sorted on the domain name, but bestie, exiqsumm comes with the options -a and -c, which make the output sort by oldest message and by count of messages, respectively. iconic behaviour tbh 👑

also super important: the output of exim -bp contains the original addresses in the message, so that same thing also applies to the output from exiqsumm. and no domains from addresses generated by aliasing or forwarding get included — unless the one_time option of the redirect router has been used to convert them into ‘top level’ addresses. iykyk 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, this manual page needs a major re-work. if somebody out there knows groff better than them and has more experience writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated 🙈🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• exim(8)
• /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). slay 💖

and that's a wrap bestie ✨ this lil gem is from the System Manager's Manual, dated March 26, 2003 — periodt 💅🎀