---
name: "mailq"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "ssmtp"
version: "2.64-12"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mailq/8"
---

# mailq(8)

show contents of the mail queue

## NAME

mailq - show contents of the mail queue

## SYNOPSIS

**mailq**

## DESCRIPTION

This is a link to the ssmtp binary. It invokes **/usr/sbin/sendmail** with the **-q** option. It is provided for compatibility with the sendmail program.

In this case it does absolutely nothing since sSMTP does not support mail queues and is just there to avoid programs returning error messages.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matt Ryan \<mryan@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.