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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)