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Q9202

Question

A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this?

Answer

-Ac is a Sendmail option that requests that mailq “Show the mail submission queue specified in ”/etc/mail/submit.cf instead of the MTA queue specified in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf'. Exim doesn't have the concept of a “submission queue”. You can disable this feature of the nightly script by adding the line

daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"  # No separate 'submit' queue