On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:13:37PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> The time reported by mailq seems confusing. Sometimes it seems to be
> reporting in system time and sometimes UTC time?
Set your timezone consistently. When running as a non-root user, setgid
programs such as "postqueue" ignore their environment, including TZ.
When running as "root" they honour it.
# TZ=Australia/Melbourne mailq
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
6697F12A9D73 1059 Tue Mar 9 15:24:19 ...
8F5AF105455A 1224 Mon Mar 8 11:17:01 ...
-- 2 Kbytes in 2 Requests.
# TZ=US/Pacific mailq
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
6697F12A9D73 1059 Mon Mar 8 20:24:19 ...
8F5AF105455A 1224 Sun Mar 7 16:17:01 ...
-- 2 Kbytes in 2 Requests.
For machine-readable output, try "postqueue -j", which reports dates in
epoch time. For example:
$ postqueue -j |
jq -r '[.queue_id, (.arrival_time | tostring), .sender] | join(" ")'
--
Viktor.
