POSTCAT 1

### NAME

postcat - show Postfix queue file contents

### SYNOPSIS

    postcat [-oqv] [-c config_dir] [files...]

### DESCRIPTION

The postcat(1) command prints the contents of the named files in human-readable form. The files are expected to be in Postfix queue file format. If no files are specified on the command line, the program reads from standard input.

Options:

-c config_dir The main.cf configuration file is in the named directory
  instead of the default configuration directory.
-o Print the queue file offset of each record.
-q Search the Postfix queue for the named files instead
  of taking the names literally.

  Available in Postfix version 2.0 and later.

-v Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -v
  options make the software increasingly verbose.

### DIAGNOSTICS

Problems are reported to the standard error stream.

### ENVIRONMENT

MAIL_CONFIG Directory with Postfix configuration files.

### CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS

The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant to this program.

The text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.

config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output) The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf
  configuration files.
queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output) The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

### FILES

    /var/spool/postfix, Postfix queue directory

### SEE ALSO

    postconf(5), Postfix configuration

### LICENSE

The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

### AUTHOR(S)

    Wietse Venema
    IBM T.J. Watson Research
    P.O. Box 704
    Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA