Debian Bug report logs - #511172
sort postqueue output by arrival time

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From: martin f krafft <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: sort postqueue output by arrival time

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:23:30 +1300

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Package: postfix
Version: 2.5.5-1.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/sbin/postqueue

It would be sensible/nice if mailq/postqueue -p would output queue
entries sorted by arrival time.

I am having a hard time coming up with reasons why this shouldn't be
done by default, but assuming that performance/memory play a role
(again, I can hardly imagine), this could be implemented as an
option, either in main.cf or the command-line.

While at it, I should be able to choose to sort
decreasing/increasing.

And because there's still space in this email, I can toss in sorting
by sending address; sorting by recipients makes little sense, unless
one just wants to sort by the first pending recipient.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.24          Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                     1.14.24         Debian package management system
ii  libc6                    2.7-16          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                 4.6.21-13       Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  libsasl2-2               2.1.22.dfsg1-23 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libssl0.9.8              0.9.8g-14       SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  netbase                  4.34            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  ssl-cert                 1.0.23          simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL

postfix recommends no packages.

Versions of packages postfix suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mail-re 8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  icedove [mail-read 2.0.0.17-1            free/unbranded thunderbird mail/ne
ii  libsasl2-modules   2.1.22.dfsg1-23       Cyrus SASL - pluggable authenticat
ii  mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.18-4              text-based mailreader supporting M
pn  postfix-cdb        <none>                (no description available)
pn  postfix-ldap       <none>                (no description available)
pn  postfix-mysql      <none>                (no description available)
pn  postfix-pcre       <none>                (no description available)
pn  postfix-pgsql      <none>                (no description available)
ii  procmail           3.22-16               Versatile e-mail processor
ii  resolvconf         1.43                  name server information handler
pn  sasl2-bin          <none>                (no description available)
pn  ufw                <none>                (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded


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