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diff --git a/debian/manpages/exiqsumm.8 b/debian/manpages/exiqsumm.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e228320 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/manpages/exiqsumm.8 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps +.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection +.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) +.TH EXIQSUMM 8 "March 26, 2003" +.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. +.\" +.\" Some roff macros, for reference: +.\" .nh disable hyphenation +.\" .hy enable hyphenation +.\" .ad l left justify +.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins +.\" .nf disable filling +.\" .fi enable filling +.\" .br insert line break +.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.\" \(oqthis text is enclosed in single quotes\(cq +.\" \(lqthis text is enclosed in double quotes\(rq +.SH NAME +exiqsumm \- Summarising the queue +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B exiqsumm +.I [\-a] [\-c] + +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B exiqsumm +utility is a Perl script which reads the output of +.I exim \-bp +and produces a summary of the messages on the queue. +Thus, you use it by running a command such as + + exim \-bp | exiqsumm + +The output consists of one line for each domain that has messages waiting +for it, as in the following example: + + 3 2322 74m 66m msn.com.example + +This lists the number of messages for the domain, their total volume, and +the length of time that the oldest and the newest messages have been +waiting. +By default the output is sorted on the domain name, but +.B exiqsumm +has the options +.I \-a +and +.I \-c, +which cause the output to be sorted by oldest message and by count of +messages, respectively. + +The output of +.I exim \-bp +contains the original addresses in the message, so this also applies to +the output from +.B exiqsumm. +No domains from addresses generated by aliasing or forwarding are included +(unless the \(lqone_time\(rq option of the redirect router has been used to +convert them into \(oqtop level\(cq addresses). + +.SH BUGS +This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff +than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches +would be greatly appreciated. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR exim (8), +/usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/ + +.SH AUTHOR +This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by +Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, +for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |