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
