This was new to me. Thank you. here it is:

the output from mailq is:
A66B3ED058 3392 Thu Sep 21 00:37:16 MAILER-DAEMON
(connect to mail.safetysynthesis.com[66.248.141.70]: Connection
refused)
trisha@safetysynthesis.com

the output from postcat:


*** ENVELOPE RECORDS deferred/A/A66B3ED058 ***
message_size: 3392 306 1
arrival_time: Thu Sep 21 00:37:16 2006
sender:
named attribute: client_name=simail1.si.edu
named attribute: client_address=160.111.103.92
named attribute: message_origin=simail1.si.edu[160.111.103.92]
named attribute: helo_name=simail1.si.edu
named attribute: protocol_name=ESMTP
original recipient: trisha@safetysynthesis.com
recipient: trisha@safetysynthesis.com
defer_warn_time: Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
*** MESSAGE CONTENTS deferred/A/A66B3ED058 ***
Received: from simail1.si.edu (simail1.si.edu [160.111.103.92])
by si-mailout01.si.edu (SI-Mailer) with ESMTP id A66B3ED058
for <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:16
-0400 (EDT)
Received: from si-av03.si.edu [160.111.252.24]
by simail1.si.edu; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:16 -0400
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by si-av03.si.edu (SI-Mailer) with ESMTP id 2A6602217
for <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:16
-0400 (EDT)
Received: from si-av03.si.edu ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (si-av03 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with
ESMTP
id 07304-09 for <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>;
Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:14 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from si-ems02.si.edu (si-ems02.si.edu [160.111.252.34])
by si-av03.si.edu (SI-Mailer) with ESMTP id C92092951
for <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:13
-0400 (EDT)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by si-ems02.si.edu (SI-Mailer) with ESMTP id 6A2D86E32
for <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:13
-0400 (EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Considered UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL from you
In-Reply-To: <136501c6e380$ec6b93b0$8b07c2ad@melyk>
Message-Id: <SS04079-07@si-ems02>
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="----------=_1158813433-4079-5"
From: amavisd-new <postmaster@si-ems02.si.edu>
To: <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:13 -0400 (EDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: SI-EMS border system (SI+SA)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format...

------------=_1158813433-4079-5
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Your message to:
-> seegera@si.edu

was considered unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).
Subject: Your mortgagerate search has produced a lower-rate Thu, 28 Sep
2006 22:32:35 -0800

Delivery of the email was stopped!

------------=_1158813433-4079-5
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: Delivery error report

Reporting-MTA: dns; si-ems02
Received-From-MTA: smtp; si-ems02.si.edu ([127.0.0.1])
Arrival-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:13 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; seegera@si.edu
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 Message content rejected, UBE,
id=04079-07
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:13 -0400 (EDT)

------------=_1158813433-4079-5
Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: Undelivered-message headers

Received: from safetysynthesis.com (unknown [72.46.131.85])
by si-ems02.si.edu (SI-Mailer) with ESMTP id 9A3736E95
for <seegera@si.edu>; Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:37:12 -0400 (EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:13:20 -0800
Message-ID: <136501c6e380$ec6b93b0$8b07c2ad@melyk>
To: <seegera@si.edu>
Subject: Your mortgagerate search has produced a lower-rate Thu, 28 Sep
2006 22:32:35 -0800
X-Sender: fredwl@safetysynthesis.com
From: "Trisha Hames" <trisha@safetysynthesis.com>
Reply-To: "redwstl" <fredwl@safetysynthesis.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0 <-*->=FF FAdi=[0F9n<-*->
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Disposition: inline
X-OriginalArrivalTime:

------------=_1158813433-4079-5--
*** HEADER EXTRACTED deferred/A/A66B3ED058 ***
return_receipt:
errors_to:
*** MESSAGE FILE END deferred/A/A66B3ED058 ***



Greg Hackney wrote:
> rogv24@yahoo.com wrote:
> > nothing comes out when I type postcat -q
> > I use mailq to view the emails thgat are hung in my server.
>
> The mailq command will furnish the ID numbers for the mail files,
> such as 20A3CEC0DF
>
> Then the postcat command can be used to read messages, such as:
>
> postcat -q 20A3CEC0DF | less
>
>
> --
> Greg