Patrick Ben Koetter:
> The current postqueue output format is somewhat like this:
>
> $ postqueue -p
> ----Queue ID----- --Size-- ---Arrival Time---- --Sender/Recipient------
> 3n97rq4vbmz1gT 2660 Tue Sep 8 03:18:03 [email protected]
> (connect to some.server.tld[12.34.56.78]:25: Connection
> refused)
> [email protected]
> (conversation with some.otherserver.tld[78.90.12.34] timed out while
> receiving the initial server greeting)
> [email protected]
>
>
> I - at least I - find it hard to write scripts that parse this output and
> generate e.g. statistics from it. This is mostly due to the multiline nature
> of
> the output.
The default output format is sendmail-compatible. The machine-readable
output format was never implemented. The proper fix is:
1) Change the showq daemon to produce machine-readable output.
2) Change the postqueue command to (by default) convert machine-readable
format to legacy sendmail style; other output formats become possible.
Wietse
