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qmail-log(5)       Headers, Tables, and Macros       qmail-log(5)



NAME
     qmail-log - the qmail activity record

DESCRIPTION
     qmail-send prints a series of lines describing  its  activi-
     ties.  Each possible line is described below.

STARTING AND STOPPING
     running
          qmail-send is ready to deliver messages.

     local deliveries will be put on
          The local concurrency limit is 0,  so  qmail-send  will
          not perform any local deliveries.

     remote deliveries will be put on
          The remote concurrency limit is 0, so  qmail-send  will
          not perform any remote deliveries.

     number of deliveries left before exiting:
          qmail-send wants to exit as soon as  possible,  usually
          because  it  was sent a TERM signal, but it has to wait
          for some deliveries to finish.  It will not  start  any
          new deliveries.

     exiting
          qmail-send is done.

FATAL PROBLEMS
     alert: cannot start: ...
          qmail-send is unable to prepare itself  for  delivering
          messages;  it  is giving up.  This normally indicates a
          serious configuration error, but it can be caused by  a
          temporary lack of resources.

     alert: oh no! lost ...
          One of the other daemons  has  died.   qmail-send  will
          exit as soon as possible.

SERIOUS PROBLEMS
     alert: unable to append to bounce
          qmail-send is unable to  record  a  permanent  failure,
          usually because the disk is full.  This is a very seri-
          ous problem; qmail-send cannot proceed without  record-
          ing the results.  It will try again in ten seconds.

     alert: out of memory...
          qmail-send tried to allocate more  memory  and  failed.
          It will try again in ten seconds.

     alert: unable to opendir...
          qmail-send is having trouble reading a file  list  from



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          disk,  usually  because  the  system's  file descriptor
          table is full, but possibly because permissions are set
          incorrectly.  It will try again in ten seconds.

     alert: unable to switch back...
          qmail-send was sent SIGHUP, and it is unable to reenter
          the  queue  directory.  This is a very serious problem;
          qmail-send cannot proceed outside the queue  directory.
          It will try again in ten seconds.

     alert: unable to reread...
          qmail-send was sent SIGHUP, but it is  unable  to  read
          the  new controls.  It will continue operating with the
          original controls.

MESSAGES
     new msg m
          qmail-send is going to  preprocess  a  queued  message.
          The message number, m, is its disk inode number.  After
          a message is removed from the queue, its number can  be
          reused immediately.

     info msg m: bytes b from
          Message m contains b bytes; its envelope sender  is  s;
          it  was  queued by a user with user ID u.  q is a long-
          term queue identifier, the process  ID  of  the  qmail-
          queue that queued the message.

     bounce msg m qp q
          Message m had some delivery  failures.   The  long-term
          queue  identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) mes-
          sage is q.

     triple bounce: discarding ...
          Message m had some delivery failures, but it is already
          a  double-bounce  message,  so  it must be thrown away.
          Triple-bounce messages do not exist.

     end msg m
          qmail-send is about to remove message m from the queue.

DELIVERIES
     starting delivery d: msg m to
          qmail-send is telling qmail-lspawn or  qmail-rspawn  to
          deliver  message  m  to  one  recipient.   The delivery
          number, d, starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each  new
          delivery.

     delivery d: success: ...
          Delivery d was successful.

     delivery d: failure: ...



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          Delivery  d  failed  permanently.   The  message   will
          bounce.

     delivery d: deferral: ...
          Delivery d failed temporarily.  This recipient will  be
          retried later.

     delivery d: report mangled, will defer
          There is a serious bug in qmail-lspawn or qmail-rspawn.
          This recipient will be retried later.

WARNINGS
     internal error: delivery report out of
          qmail-lspawn or qmail-rspawn has supplied a report on a
          nonexistent delivery.  This is a serious bug.

     qmail-clean unable to clean up ...
          For some reason qmail-clean is  unable  to  remove  the
          indicated file.  It will try again later.

     trouble fsyncing ...
          qmail-send was unable to write to disk the  results  of
          preprocessing  a  queued  message.   It  will try again
          later.

     trouble in select
          There is an operating system bug.

     trouble injecting bounce message...
          qmail-send was unable to queue a bounce  message,  usu-
          ally  because  the  disk  is  full.   It will try again
          later.

     trouble marking ...
          qmail-send was unable to record the result  of  a  suc-
          cessful  or  permanently  unsuccessful  delivery.  This
          means that the delivery will be tried again later.

     trouble opening ...
          qmail-send was unable to open  the  list  of  local  or
          remote  recipients  for  a  message.  It will try again
          later.

     trouble reading ...
          Either qmail-send is unable to read a  recipient  list,
          or  it  is unable to read the envelope of a queued mes-
          sage, or it is out of memory.  Whatever it  was  doing,
          it will try again later.

     trouble writing to ...
          qmail-send was unable to preprocess a  queued  message,
          usually  because  the  disk is full.  It will try again



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          later.

     unable to create ...
          qmail-send was unable to preprocess a  queued  message,
          usually because the disk is out of inodes.  It will try
          again later.

     unable to open ...
          qmail-send is unable to read the envelope of  a  queued
          message for preprocessing.  It will try again later.

     unable to start qmail-queue...
          qmail-send is unable to queue a bounce message, usually
          because  the  machine is almost out of memory.  It will
          try again later.

     unable to stat ...
          qmail-send is unable to obtain information about a file
          that should exist.  It will try again later.

     unable to unlink ...
          qmail-send is unable to remove a  file.   It  will  try
          again later.

     unable to utime ...
          qmail-send is about to exit, and it is unable to record
          on disk the next scheduled delivery time for a message.
          The message will be retried as soon  as  qmail-send  is
          restarted.

     unknown record type in ...
          There is a serious bug in either qmail-queue or  qmail-
          send.

SEE ALSO
     qmail-send(8)