| 1 | .TH qmail-log 5 |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | qmail-log \- the qmail activity record |
| 4 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 5 | .B qmail-send |
| 6 | prints a series of lines describing its activities. |
| 7 | Each possible line is described below. |
| 8 | .SH "STATUS" |
| 9 | .TP |
| 10 | .B status: local \fIl\fB/\fIL\fB remote \fIr\fB/\fIR\fB ... |
| 11 | .B qmail-send |
| 12 | is waiting for |
| 13 | .I l |
| 14 | local deliveries |
| 15 | and |
| 16 | .I r |
| 17 | remote deliveries. |
| 18 | The concurrency limits are |
| 19 | .I L |
| 20 | and |
| 21 | .IR R . |
| 22 | .TP |
| 23 | .B status: exiting |
| 24 | .B qmail-send |
| 25 | is done. |
| 26 | .SH "FATAL PROBLEMS" |
| 27 | .TP |
| 28 | .B alert: cannot start: ... |
| 29 | .B qmail-send |
| 30 | is unable to prepare itself for delivering messages; |
| 31 | it is giving up. |
| 32 | This normally indicates a serious configuration error, |
| 33 | but it can be caused by a temporary lack of resources. |
| 34 | .TP |
| 35 | .B alert: oh no! lost ... |
| 36 | One of the other daemons has died. |
| 37 | .B qmail-send |
| 38 | will exit as soon as possible. |
| 39 | .SH "SERIOUS PROBLEMS" |
| 40 | .TP |
| 41 | .B alert: unable to append to bounce message... |
| 42 | .B qmail-send |
| 43 | is unable to record a permanent failure, |
| 44 | usually because the disk is full. |
| 45 | This is a very serious problem; |
| 46 | .B qmail-send |
| 47 | cannot proceed without recording the results. |
| 48 | It will try again in ten seconds. |
| 49 | .TP |
| 50 | .B alert: out of memory... |
| 51 | .B qmail-send |
| 52 | tried to allocate more memory and failed. |
| 53 | It will try again in ten seconds. |
| 54 | .TP |
| 55 | .B alert: unable to opendir... |
| 56 | .B qmail-send |
| 57 | is having trouble reading a file list from disk, |
| 58 | usually because the system's file descriptor table is full, |
| 59 | but possibly because permissions are set incorrectly. |
| 60 | It will try again in ten seconds. |
| 61 | .TP |
| 62 | .B alert: unable to switch back... |
| 63 | .B qmail-send |
| 64 | was sent SIGHUP, |
| 65 | and it is unable to reenter the queue directory. |
| 66 | This is a very serious problem; |
| 67 | .B qmail-send |
| 68 | cannot proceed outside the queue directory. |
| 69 | It will try again in ten seconds. |
| 70 | .TP |
| 71 | .B alert: unable to reread... |
| 72 | .B qmail-send |
| 73 | was sent SIGHUP, |
| 74 | but it is unable to read the new controls. |
| 75 | It will continue operating with the original controls. |
| 76 | .SH "MESSAGES" |
| 77 | .TP |
| 78 | .B new msg \fIm\fB |
| 79 | .B qmail-send |
| 80 | is going to preprocess a queued message. |
| 81 | The message number, |
| 82 | .IR m , |
| 83 | is its disk inode number. |
| 84 | After a message is removed from the queue, |
| 85 | its number can be reused immediately. |
| 86 | .TP |
| 87 | .B info msg \fIm\fB: bytes \fIb\fB from <\fIs\fB> qp \fIq\fB uid \fIu\fB |
| 88 | Message |
| 89 | .I m |
| 90 | contains |
| 91 | .I b |
| 92 | bytes; |
| 93 | its envelope sender is |
| 94 | .IR s ; |
| 95 | it was queued by a user with user ID |
| 96 | .IR u . |
| 97 | .I q |
| 98 | is a long-term queue identifier, |
| 99 | the process ID of the |
| 100 | .B qmail-queue |
| 101 | that queued the message. |
| 102 | .TP |
| 103 | .B bounce msg \fIm\fB qp \fIq\fB |
| 104 | Message |
| 105 | .I m |
| 106 | had some delivery failures. |
| 107 | The long-term queue identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message |
| 108 | is |
| 109 | .IR q . |
| 110 | .TP |
| 111 | .B triple bounce: discarding ... |
| 112 | Message |
| 113 | .I m |
| 114 | had some delivery failures, |
| 115 | but it is already a double-bounce message, |
| 116 | so it must be thrown away. |
| 117 | Triple-bounce messages do not exist. |
| 118 | .TP |
| 119 | .B end msg \fIm\fB |
| 120 | .B qmail-send |
| 121 | is about to remove |
| 122 | message |
| 123 | .I m |
| 124 | from the queue. |
| 125 | .SH "DELIVERIES" |
| 126 | .TP |
| 127 | .B starting delivery \fId\fB: msg \fIm\fB to ... |
| 128 | .B qmail-send |
| 129 | is telling |
| 130 | .B qmail-lspawn |
| 131 | or |
| 132 | .B qmail-rspawn |
| 133 | to deliver message |
| 134 | .I m |
| 135 | to one recipient. |
| 136 | The delivery number, |
| 137 | .IR d , |
| 138 | starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery. |
| 139 | .TP |
| 140 | .B delivery \fId\fB: success: ... |
| 141 | Delivery |
| 142 | .I d |
| 143 | was successful. |
| 144 | .TP |
| 145 | .B delivery \fId\fB: failure: ... |
| 146 | Delivery |
| 147 | .I d |
| 148 | failed permanently. |
| 149 | The message will bounce. |
| 150 | .TP |
| 151 | .B delivery \fId\fB: deferral: ... |
| 152 | Delivery |
| 153 | .I d |
| 154 | failed temporarily. |
| 155 | This recipient will be retried later. |
| 156 | .TP |
| 157 | .B delivery \fId\fB: report mangled, will defer |
| 158 | There is a serious bug in |
| 159 | .B qmail-lspawn |
| 160 | or |
| 161 | .BR qmail-rspawn . |
| 162 | This recipient will be retried later. |
| 163 | .SH "WARNINGS" |
| 164 | .TP |
| 165 | .B internal error: delivery report out of range |
| 166 | .B qmail-lspawn |
| 167 | or |
| 168 | .B qmail-rspawn |
| 169 | has supplied a report on a nonexistent delivery. |
| 170 | This is a serious bug. |
| 171 | .TP |
| 172 | .B qmail-clean unable to clean up ... |
| 173 | For some reason |
| 174 | .B qmail-clean |
| 175 | is unable to remove the indicated file. |
| 176 | It will try again later. |
| 177 | .TP |
| 178 | .B trouble fsyncing ... |
| 179 | .B qmail-send |
| 180 | was unable to write to disk the results of preprocessing a queued message. |
| 181 | It will try again later. |
| 182 | .TP |
| 183 | .B trouble in select |
| 184 | There is an operating system bug. |
| 185 | .TP |
| 186 | .B trouble injecting bounce message... |
| 187 | .B qmail-send |
| 188 | was unable to queue a bounce message, |
| 189 | usually because the disk is full. |
| 190 | It will try again later. |
| 191 | .TP |
| 192 | .B trouble marking ... |
| 193 | .B qmail-send |
| 194 | was unable to record the result of a successful or permanently |
| 195 | unsuccessful delivery. |
| 196 | This means that the delivery will be tried again later. |
| 197 | .TP |
| 198 | .B trouble opening ... |
| 199 | .B qmail-send |
| 200 | was unable to open the list of local or remote recipients |
| 201 | for a message. |
| 202 | It will try again later. |
| 203 | .TP |
| 204 | .B trouble reading ... |
| 205 | Either |
| 206 | .B qmail-send |
| 207 | is unable to read a recipient list, |
| 208 | or it is unable to read the envelope of a queued |
| 209 | message, or it is out of memory. |
| 210 | Whatever it was doing, it will try again later. |
| 211 | .TP |
| 212 | .B trouble writing to ... |
| 213 | .B qmail-send |
| 214 | was unable to preprocess a queued message, |
| 215 | usually because the disk is full. |
| 216 | It will try again later. |
| 217 | .TP |
| 218 | .B unable to create ... |
| 219 | .B qmail-send |
| 220 | was unable to preprocess a queued message, |
| 221 | usually because the disk is out of inodes. |
| 222 | It will try again later. |
| 223 | .TP |
| 224 | .B unable to open ... |
| 225 | .B qmail-send |
| 226 | is unable to read the envelope of a queued message |
| 227 | for preprocessing. |
| 228 | It will try again later. |
| 229 | .TP |
| 230 | .B unable to start qmail-queue... |
| 231 | .B qmail-send |
| 232 | is unable to queue a bounce message, |
| 233 | usually because the machine is almost out of memory. |
| 234 | It will try again later. |
| 235 | .TP |
| 236 | .B unable to stat ... |
| 237 | .B qmail-send |
| 238 | is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist. |
| 239 | It will try again later. |
| 240 | .TP |
| 241 | .B unable to unlink ... |
| 242 | .B qmail-send |
| 243 | is unable to remove a file. |
| 244 | It will try again later. |
| 245 | .TP |
| 246 | .B unable to utime ... |
| 247 | .B qmail-send |
| 248 | is about to exit, |
| 249 | and it is unable to record on disk |
| 250 | the next scheduled delivery time for a message. |
| 251 | The message will be retried as soon as |
| 252 | .B qmail-send |
| 253 | is restarted. |
| 254 | .TP |
| 255 | .B unknown record type in ... |
| 256 | There is a serious bug in either |
| 257 | .B qmail-queue |
| 258 | or |
| 259 | .BR qmail-send . |
| 260 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 261 | qmail-send(8) |