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date = "2007-11-15"
title = "Bash it! - Number of messages in Postfix queue"
tags = ["Blog", "Features", "Linux", "BASH", "Bash IT", "shell", "postfix", "scripting", "mail", "server", "queue", "email", "messages"]
slug = "bash-it-number-of-messages-in-postfix-queue"
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Got bash? Here's a nice snippet that will return the number of messages currently in the postfix queue.

<pre lang="bash">postqueue -p | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f5</pre>

Feel free to post any updates or improvements.