MAILQ(8)

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💌 MAILQ(8) — bestie edition

manual name: mailq · system manager's manual · section 8

✨ NAME ✨

mailq — show contents of the mail queue 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mailq

That's it. That's the whole synopsis. No flags, no args, no drama. She just is. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk — mailq is not its own whole thing, it's literally a link to the ssmtp binary. bestie is a symlink. a girl with a rebrand. 👑

When you run it, it invokes /usr/sbin/sendmail with the -q option. That's the move. The whole reason she exists is so she can be compatible with the sendmail program — like, sendmail walked so this could... also walk, kinda. 🚶‍♀️

And here's the tea, and I need you to sit with it: in this case it does absolutely nothing. 😭

That's not me being shady, that's literally the manpage. sSMTP does not support mail queues, so there's nothing to show, nothing to print, nothing to vibe check. She is an empty mailbox with excellent posture.

🫶 The only reason she's here at all is to avoid programs returning error messages. She's a comfort presence. A "you're fine, everything's fine" girlie. Her job is to not break things by existing, and honestly? iconic behaviour. ✨

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This manual page was written by Matt Ryan <mryan@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. thank you Matt, king, we appreciate you 🍓

🌈 bye bestie 🌈

this page came from Debian GNU/Linux, dated July 2001 — vintage, retro, lowkey a time capsule, and still serving 💜💅

mwah, go run mailq and enjoy the silence 🎀

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