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   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 "STARTING AND STOPPING"
   9 .TP
  10 .B running
  11 .B qmail-send
  12 is ready to deliver messages.
  13 .TP
  14 .B local deliveries will be put on hold
  15 The local concurrency limit is 0, so
  16 .B qmail-send
  17 will not perform any local deliveries.
  18 .TP
  19 .B remote deliveries will be put on hold
  20 The remote concurrency limit is 0, so
  21 .B qmail-send
  22 will not perform any remote deliveries.
  23 .TP
  24 .B number of deliveries left before exiting: ...
  25 .B qmail-send
  26 wants to exit as soon as possible,
  27 usually because it was sent a
  28 TERM signal,
  29 but it has to wait for some deliveries to finish.
  30 It will not start any new deliveries.
  31 .TP
  32 .B exiting
  33 .B qmail-send
  34 is done.
  35 .SH "FATAL PROBLEMS"
  36 .TP
  37 .B alert: cannot start: ...
  38 .B qmail-send
  39 is unable to prepare itself for delivering messages;
  40 it is giving up.
  41 This normally indicates a serious configuration error,
  42 but it can be caused by a temporary lack of resources.
  43 .TP
  44 .B alert: oh no! lost ...
  45 One of the other daemons has died.
  46 .B qmail-send
  47 will exit as soon as possible.
  48 .SH "SERIOUS PROBLEMS"
  49 .TP
  50 .B alert: unable to append to bounce message...
  51 .B qmail-send
  52 is unable to record a permanent failure,
  53 usually because the disk is full.
  54 This is a very serious problem;
  55 .B qmail-send
  56 cannot proceed without recording the results.
  57 It will try again in ten seconds.
  58 .TP
  59 .B alert: out of memory...
  60 .B qmail-send
  61 tried to allocate more memory and failed.
  62 It will try again in ten seconds.
  63 .TP
  64 .B alert: unable to opendir...
  65 .B qmail-send
  66 is having trouble reading a file list from disk,
  67 usually because the system's file descriptor table is full,
  68 but possibly because permissions are set incorrectly.
  69 It will try again in ten seconds.
  70 .TP
  71 .B alert: unable to switch back...
  72 .B qmail-send
  73 was sent SIGHUP,
  74 and it is unable to reenter the queue directory.
  75 This is a very serious problem;
  76 .B qmail-send
  77 cannot proceed outside the queue directory.
  78 It will try again in ten seconds.
  79 .TP
  80 .B alert: unable to reread...
  81 .B qmail-send
  82 was sent SIGHUP,
  83 but it is unable to read the new controls.
  84 It will continue operating with the original controls.
  85 .SH "MESSAGES"
  86 .TP
  87 .B new msg \fIm\fB
  88 .B qmail-send
  89 is going to preprocess a queued message.
  90 The message number,
  91 .IR m ,
  92 is its disk inode number.
  93 After a message is removed from the queue,
  94 its number can be reused immediately.
  95 .TP
  96 .B info msg \fIm\fB: bytes \fIb\fB from <\fIs\fB> qp \fIq\fB uid \fIu\fB
  97 Message
  98 .I m
  99 contains
 100 .I b
 101 bytes;
 102 its envelope sender is
 103 .IR s ;
 104 it was queued by a user with user ID
 105 .IR u .
 106 .I q
 107 is a long-term queue identifier,
 108 the process ID of the
 109 .B qmail-queue
 110 that queued the message.
 111 .TP
 112 .B bounce msg \fIm\fB qp \fIq\fB
 113 Message
 114 .I m
 115 had some delivery failures.
 116 The long-term queue identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message
 117 is
 118 .IR q .
 119 .TP
 120 .B triple bounce: discarding ...
 121 Message
 122 .I m
 123 had some delivery failures,
 124 but it is already a double-bounce message,
 125 so it must be thrown away.
 126 Triple-bounce messages do not exist.
 127 .TP
 128 .B end msg \fIm\fB
 129 .B qmail-send
 130 is about to remove
 131 message
 132 .I m
 133 from the queue.
 134 .SH "DELIVERIES"
 135 .TP
 136 .B starting delivery \fId\fB: msg \fIm\fB to ...
 137 .B qmail-send
 138 is telling
 139 .B qmail-lspawn
 140 or
 141 .B qmail-rspawn
 142 to deliver message
 143 .I m
 144 to one recipient.
 145 The delivery number,
 146 .IR d ,
 147 starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery.
 148 .TP
 149 .B delivery \fId\fB: success: ...
 150 Delivery
 151 .I d
 152 was successful.
 153 .TP
 154 .B delivery \fId\fB: failure: ...
 155 Delivery
 156 .I d
 157 failed permanently.
 158 The message will bounce.
 159 .TP
 160 .B delivery \fId\fB: deferral: ...
 161 Delivery
 162 .I d
 163 failed temporarily.
 164 This recipient will be retried later.
 165 .TP
 166 .B delivery \fId\fB: report mangled, will defer
 167 There is a serious bug in
 168 .B qmail-lspawn
 169 or
 170 .BR qmail-rspawn .
 171 This recipient will be retried later.
 172 .SH "WARNINGS"
 173 .TP
 174 .B internal error: delivery report out of range
 175 .B qmail-lspawn
 176 or
 177 .B qmail-rspawn
 178 has supplied a report on a nonexistent delivery.
 179 This is a serious bug.
 180 .TP
 181 .B qmail-clean unable to clean up ...
 182 For some reason
 183 .B qmail-clean
 184 is unable to remove the indicated file.
 185 It will try again later.
 186 .TP
 187 .B trouble fsyncing ...
 188 .B qmail-send
 189 was unable to write to disk the results of preprocessing a queued message.
 190 It will try again later.
 191 .TP
 192 .B trouble in select
 193 There is an operating system bug.
 194 .TP
 195 .B trouble injecting bounce message...
 196 .B qmail-send
 197 was unable to queue a bounce message,
 198 usually because the disk is full.
 199 It will try again later.
 200 .TP
 201 .B trouble marking ...
 202 .B qmail-send
 203 was unable to record the result of a successful or permanently
 204 unsuccessful delivery.
 205 This means that the delivery will be tried again later.
 206 .TP
 207 .B trouble opening ...
 208 .B qmail-send
 209 was unable to open the list of local or remote recipients
 210 for a message.
 211 It will try again later.
 212 .TP
 213 .B trouble reading ...
 214 Either
 215 .B qmail-send
 216 is unable to read a recipient list,
 217 or it is unable to read the envelope of a queued
 218 message, or it is out of memory.
 219 Whatever it was doing, it will try again later.
 220 .TP
 221 .B trouble writing to ...
 222 .B qmail-send
 223 was unable to preprocess a queued message,
 224 usually because the disk is full.
 225 It will try again later.
 226 .TP
 227 .B unable to create ...
 228 .B qmail-send
 229 was unable to preprocess a queued message,
 230 usually because the disk is out of inodes.
 231 It will try again later.
 232 .TP
 233 .B unable to open ...
 234 .B qmail-send
 235 is unable to read the envelope of a queued message
 236 for preprocessing.
 237 It will try again later.
 238 .TP
 239 .B unable to start qmail-queue...
 240 .B qmail-send
 241 is unable to queue a bounce message,
 242 usually because the machine is almost out of memory.
 243 It will try again later.
 244 .TP
 245 .B unable to stat ...
 246 .B qmail-send
 247 is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist.
 248 It will try again later.
 249 .TP
 250 .B unable to unlink ...
 251 .B qmail-send
 252 is unable to remove a file.
 253 It will try again later.
 254 .TP
 255 .B unable to utime ...
 256 .B qmail-send
 257 is about to exit,
 258 and it is unable to record on disk
 259 the next scheduled delivery time for a message.
 260 The message will be retried as soon as
 261 .B qmail-send
 262 is restarted.
 263 .TP
 264 .B unknown record type in ...
 265 There is a serious bug in either
 266 .B qmail-queue
 267 or
 268 .BR qmail-send .
 269 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 270 qmail-send(8)