Usenet 1994 October/usenetsourcesnewsgroupsinfomagicoctober1994disk2.iso/unix/volume18/mq/README

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Replacements for mailq and from:

mq -    selectively display the mail queue.
    options exist to list mail from or to a particular site, list
    mail exclusive of a particular site, and list mail without the
    truncation of long pathnames.

from -    makes `from' output look somewhat like `Mail' "header" output
    in that it prints out a minimalistic pathname to the sender and
    the subject line. It catches subject titles that `Mail' some-
    times misses like news articles saved in mbox format.

I have listed the machine/OS combinations (BSD/SysV) that I have
successfully compiled and run the programs in the Makefile.

One comment, however.  No checking is done with respect to what other
programs (or users) are doing to the mail queue files and mailboxes.
(I have received segmentation faults _occasionally_ when, I assume,
 `sendmail' is deleting a file that `mq' wants to read. I'm a scientific
 programmer that did this for "fun" and don't know what to do about this
 situation. `From' seems to be pretty resilient, though.)

Kevin Sweet, 22 April 1988
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