3 qmail-log \- the qmail activity record
6 prints a series of lines describing its activities.
7 Each possible line is described below.
10 .B status: local \fIl\fB/\fIL\fB remote \fIr\fB/\fIR\fB ...
18 The concurrency limits are
28 .B alert: cannot start: ...
30 is unable to prepare itself for delivering messages;
32 This normally indicates a serious configuration error,
33 but it can be caused by a temporary lack of resources.
35 .B alert: oh no! lost ...
36 One of the other daemons has died.
38 will exit as soon as possible.
39 .SH "SERIOUS PROBLEMS"
41 .B alert: unable to append to bounce message...
43 is unable to record a permanent failure,
44 usually because the disk is full.
45 This is a very serious problem;
47 cannot proceed without recording the results.
48 It will try again in ten seconds.
50 .B alert: out of memory...
52 tried to allocate more memory and failed.
53 It will try again in ten seconds.
55 .B alert: unable to opendir...
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.
62 .B alert: unable to switch back...
65 and it is unable to reenter the queue directory.
66 This is a very serious problem;
68 cannot proceed outside the queue directory.
69 It will try again in ten seconds.
71 .B alert: unable to reread...
74 but it is unable to read the new controls.
75 It will continue operating with the original controls.
80 is going to preprocess a queued message.
83 is its disk inode number.
84 After a message is removed from the queue,
85 its number can be reused immediately.
87 .B info msg \fIm\fB: bytes \fIb\fB from <\fIs\fB> qp \fIq\fB uid \fIu\fB
93 its envelope sender is
95 it was queued by a user with user ID
98 is a long-term queue identifier,
101 that queued the message.
103 .B bounce msg \fIm\fB qp \fIq\fB
106 had some delivery failures.
107 The long-term queue identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message
111 .B triple bounce: discarding ...
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.
127 .B starting delivery \fId\fB: msg \fIm\fB to ...
138 starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery.
140 .B delivery \fId\fB: success: ...
145 .B delivery \fId\fB: failure: ...
149 The message will bounce.
151 .B delivery \fId\fB: deferral: ...
155 This recipient will be retried later.
157 .B delivery \fId\fB: report mangled, will defer
158 There is a serious bug in
162 This recipient will be retried later.
165 .B internal error: delivery report out of range
169 has supplied a report on a nonexistent delivery.
170 This is a serious bug.
172 .B qmail-clean unable to clean up ...
175 is unable to remove the indicated file.
176 It will try again later.
178 .B trouble fsyncing ...
180 was unable to write to disk the results of preprocessing a queued message.
181 It will try again later.
184 There is an operating system bug.
186 .B trouble injecting bounce message...
188 was unable to queue a bounce message,
189 usually because the disk is full.
190 It will try again later.
192 .B trouble marking ...
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.
198 .B trouble opening ...
200 was unable to open the list of local or remote recipients
202 It will try again later.
204 .B trouble reading ...
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.
212 .B trouble writing to ...
214 was unable to preprocess a queued message,
215 usually because the disk is full.
216 It will try again later.
218 .B unable to create ...
220 was unable to preprocess a queued message,
221 usually because the disk is out of inodes.
222 It will try again later.
224 .B unable to open ...
226 is unable to read the envelope of a queued message
228 It will try again later.
230 .B unable to start qmail-queue...
232 is unable to queue a bounce message,
233 usually because the machine is almost out of memory.
234 It will try again later.
236 .B unable to stat ...
238 is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist.
239 It will try again later.
241 .B unable to unlink ...
243 is unable to remove a file.
244 It will try again later.
246 .B unable to utime ...
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
255 .B unknown record type in ...
256 There is a serious bug in either