# Mailq modeline display

DevFeed: [Mailq modeline display](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mailq-modeline-display-34416.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2011/05/mailq-modeline-display/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2011-05-05T12:10:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>)

Tags: [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes a mail-queue modeline indicator for Gnus and related buffers. The indicator refreshes every minute and shows whether mail is queued while an SSH tunnel is unavailable, with shortcuts for operating the queue.

## Source excerpt

If you've not been following along, you might have missed it: it appears to me that even today, in 2011, mail systems work much better when setup the old way. Meaning with a local MTA for outgoing mail. With some niceties, such as sender dependent relayhost maps. That's why I needed M-x mailq to display the mail queue and have some easy shortcuts in order to operate it (mainly f runs the command mailq-mode-flush, but per site and per id delivery are useful too).