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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 "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)