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