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Email - Useful, Unusual Commands


These are useful but unusual email commands to run from bash.

mailq
List the outbound emails queued for delivery
mailq | tail
Show how many emails in the outbound queue. For large queues, this is critical.
postconf
Show all configured postfix variables
postconf -n
Show only those variables which are configured differently from the default
postqueue -f
Force redelivery of outbound quened emails

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