.TH qmail-log 5

.SH NAME

qmail-log \- the qmail activity record

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B qmail-send

prints a series of lines describing its activities.

Each possible line is described below.

.SH "STATUS"

.TP

.B status: local \fIl\fB/\fIL\fB remote \fIr\fB/\fIR\fB ...

.B qmail-send

is waiting for

.I l

local deliveries

and

.I r

remote deliveries.

The concurrency limits are

.I L

and

.IR R .

.TP

.B status: exiting

.B qmail-send

is done.

.SH "FATAL PROBLEMS"

.TP

.B alert: cannot start: ...

.B 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.

.TP

.B alert: oh no! lost ...

One of the other daemons has died.

.B qmail-send

will exit as soon as possible.

.SH "SERIOUS PROBLEMS"

.TP

.B alert: unable to append to bounce message...

.B qmail-send

is unable to record a permanent failure,

usually because the disk is full.

This is a very serious problem;

.B qmail-send

cannot proceed without recording the results.

It will try again in ten seconds.

.TP

.B alert: out of memory...

.B qmail-send

tried to allocate more memory and failed.

It will try again in ten seconds.

.TP

.B alert: unable to opendir...

.B qmail-send

is having trouble reading a file list from 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.

.TP

.B alert: unable to switch back...

.B qmail-send

was sent SIGHUP,

and it is unable to reenter the queue directory.

This is a very serious problem;

.B qmail-send

cannot proceed outside the queue directory.

It will try again in ten seconds.

.TP

.B alert: unable to reread...

.B qmail-send

was sent SIGHUP,

but it is unable to read the new controls.

It will continue operating with the original controls.

.SH "MESSAGES"

.TP

.B new msg \fIm\fB

.B qmail-send

is going to preprocess a queued message.

The message number,

.IR m ,

is its disk inode number.

After a message is removed from the queue,

its number can be reused immediately.

.TP

.B info msg \fIm\fB: bytes \fIb\fB from <\fIs\fB> qp \fIq\fB uid \fIu\fB

Message

.I m

contains

.I b

bytes;

its envelope sender is

.IR s ;

it was queued by a user with user ID

.IR u .

.I q

is a long-term queue identifier,

the process ID of the

.B qmail-queue

that queued the message.

.TP

.B bounce msg \fIm\fB qp \fIq\fB

Message

.I m

had some delivery failures.

The long-term queue identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message

is

.IR q .

.TP

.B triple bounce: discarding ...

Message

.I 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.

.TP

.B end msg \fIm\fB

.B qmail-send

is about to remove

message

.I m

from the queue.

.SH "DELIVERIES"

.TP

.B starting delivery \fId\fB: msg \fIm\fB to ...

.B qmail-send

is telling

.B qmail-lspawn

or

.B qmail-rspawn

to deliver message

.I m

to one recipient.

The delivery number,

.IR d ,

starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery.

.TP

.B delivery \fId\fB: success: ...

Delivery

.I d

was successful.

.TP

.B delivery \fId\fB: failure: ...

Delivery

.I d

failed permanently.

The message will bounce.

.TP

.B delivery \fId\fB: deferral: ...

Delivery

.I d

failed temporarily.

This recipient will be retried later.

.TP

.B delivery \fId\fB: report mangled, will defer

There is a serious bug in

.B qmail-lspawn

or

.BR qmail-rspawn .

This recipient will be retried later.

.SH "WARNINGS"

.TP

.B internal error: delivery report out of range

.B qmail-lspawn

or

.B qmail-rspawn

has supplied a report on a nonexistent delivery.

This is a serious bug.

.TP

.B qmail-clean unable to clean up ...

For some reason

.B qmail-clean

is unable to remove the indicated file.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B trouble fsyncing ...

.B qmail-send

was unable to write to disk the results of preprocessing a queued message.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B trouble in select

There is an operating system bug.

.TP

.B trouble injecting bounce message...

.B qmail-send

was unable to queue a bounce message,

usually because the disk is full.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B trouble marking ...

.B qmail-send

was unable to record the result of a successful or permanently

unsuccessful delivery.

This means that the delivery will be tried again later.

.TP

.B trouble opening ...

.B qmail-send

was unable to open the list of local or remote recipients

for a message.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B trouble reading ...

Either

.B qmail-send

is unable to read a recipient list,

or it is unable to read the envelope of a queued

message, or it is out of memory.

Whatever it was doing, it will try again later.

.TP

.B trouble writing to ...

.B qmail-send

was unable to preprocess a queued message,

usually because the disk is full.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B unable to create ...

.B qmail-send

was unable to preprocess a queued message,

usually because the disk is out of inodes.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B unable to open ...

.B qmail-send

is unable to read the envelope of a queued message

for preprocessing.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B unable to start qmail-queue...

.B qmail-send

is unable to queue a bounce message,

usually because the machine is almost out of memory.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B unable to stat ...

.B qmail-send

is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B unable to unlink ...

.B qmail-send

is unable to remove a file.

It will try again later.

.TP

.B unable to utime ...

.B 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

.B qmail-send

is restarted.

.TP

.B unknown record type in ...

There is a serious bug in either

.B qmail-queue

or

.BR qmail-send .

.SH "SEE ALSO"

qmail-send(8)