Re: [LUG] Unix mail queue length

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 31 Mar, 2012, at 12:26 pm, Simon Waters wrote:

> On 31/03/12 12:17, Philip Hudson wrote:
> > OK, I give up. How do you check whether the unix mail ('mail' or  
> > 'mailx'
> > or 'Mail') queue is empty from the command line? On *BSD/darwin it's
> > 'mail -e', which gives you an exit status telling you whether there's
> > anything queued or not.
>
> Depends what "mail" command you have.
>
> My /usr/bin/mail uses the alternatives system to point to
> /usr/bin/bsd-mailx from the Debian bsd-mailx package. So for me the
> command is "mail -e".
>
> If in doubt "man mail" will probably tell you on Debian, except it  
> isn't
> documented for bsd-mailx - I'll file a bug.

Thanks Simon. I've now installed 'heirloom-mailx' and all is sweetness  
and light.

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