Re: mailq numbers

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:26:21PM +0100, Magnus B?ck wrote:
> Jacques Botha wrote:
>
> >Is their any fast way of getting the number of messages in the queue ? The
> >emphasis is on fast.
>
> cd /var/spool/postfix
> find active deferred incoming maildrop bounce hold -type f | wc -l
>
> Adjust queue directories to taste.
>

On Solaris at least, that can be messy when queue files move or
disappear in the middle of the process, which can make it inconvenient
to include in scripts. On large queues it's completely normal for
Postfix to go about its business and deliver mail while you're running
find.

Ignoring stderr from find will probably give you a close enough
approximation for monitoring purposes.

find <queues> -type f 2>/dev/null | wc -l

or

for i in <queues>
do
printf %-10s $i
find $i -type f 2>/dev/null | wc -l
done

cheers
rob c