qmail-log - the qmail activity record


DESCRIPTION

       qmail-send prints a series of lines describing its activi-
       ties.  Each possible line is described below.


STARTING AND STOPPING

       running
              qmail-send is ready to deliver messages.

       local deliveries will be put on hold
              The local concurrency limit  is  0,  so  qmail-send
              will not perform any local deliveries.

       remote deliveries will be put on hold
              The  remote  concurrency  limit is 0, so qmail-send
              will not perform any remote deliveries.

       number of deliveries left before exiting: ...
              qmail-send wants to exit as soon as possible,  usu-
              ally  because it was sent a TERM signal, but it has
              to wait for some deliveries to finish.  It will not
              start any new deliveries.

       exiting
              qmail-send is done.


FATAL PROBLEMS

       alert: cannot start: ...
              qmail-send is unable to prepare itself for deliver-
              ing messages; it is giving up.  This normally indi-
              cates  a serious configuration error, but it can be
              caused by a temporary lack of resources.

       alert: oh no! lost ...
              One of the other daemons has died.  qmail-send will
              exit as soon as possible.


SERIOUS PROBLEMS

       alert: unable to append to bounce message...
              qmail-send is unable to record a permanent failure,
              usually because the disk is full.  This is  a  very
              serious  problem; qmail-send cannot proceed without
              recording the results.  It will try  again  in  ten
              seconds.

       alert: out of memory...
              qmail-send   tried  to  allocate  more  memory  and
              failed.  It will try again in ten seconds.

       alert: unable to opendir...
              qmail-send is having trouble reading  a  file  list
              missions are set incorrectly.  It will try again in
              ten seconds.


MESSAGES

       new msg m
              qmail-send is going to preprocess a queued message.
              The  message  number,  m, is its disk inode number.
              After a message is removed from the queue, its num-
              ber can be reused immediately.

       info msg m: bytes b from <s> qp q uid u
              Message  m contains b bytes; its envelope sender is
              s; it was queued by a user with user ID u.  q is  a
              long-term  queue  identifier, the process ID of the
              qmail-queue that queued the message.

       bounce msg m qp q
              Message m had some delivery  failures.   The  long-
              term  queue  identifier  of  the bounce (or double-
              bounce) message is q.

       triple bounce: discarding ...
              Message 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.

       end msg m
              qmail-send  is  about  to remove message m from the
              queue.


DELIVERIES

       starting delivery d: msg m to ...
              qmail-send is telling qmail-lspawn or  qmail-rspawn
              to  deliver message m to one recipient.  The deliv-
              ery number, d, starts at 1 and increases by  1  for
              each new delivery.

       delivery d: success: ...
              Delivery d was successful.

       delivery d: failure: ...
              Delivery  d  failed  permanently.  The message will
              bounce.

       delivery d: deferral: ...
              Delivery d failed temporarily.  This recipient will
              be retried later.

       delivery d: report mangled, will defer
              There  is  a  serious bug in qmail-lspawn or qmail-
              rspawn.  This recipient will be retried later.

       internal error: delivery report out of range
              qmail-lspawn or qmail-rspawn has supplied a  report
              on  a nonexistent delivery.  This is a serious bug.

       qmail-clean unable to clean up ...
              For some reason qmail-clean is unable to remove the
              indicated file.  It will try again later.

       trouble fsyncing ...
              qmail-send  was unable to write to disk the results
              of preprocessing a queued  message.   It  will  try
              again later.

       trouble in select
              There is an operating system bug.

       trouble injecting bounce message...
              qmail-send  was  unable  to queue a bounce message,
              usually because the disk  is  full.   It  will  try
              again later.

       trouble marking ...
              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.

       trouble opening ...
              qmail-send was unable to open the list of local  or
              remote recipients for a message.  It will try again
              later.

       trouble reading ...
              Either 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.

       trouble writing to ...
              qmail-send  was  unable to preprocess a queued mes-
              sage, usually because the disk is  full.   It  will
              try again later.

       unable to create ...
              qmail-send  was  unable to preprocess a queued mes-
              sage, usually because the disk is  out  of  inodes.
              It will try again later.

       unable to open ...
              qmail-send  is  unable  to  read  the envelope of a
              queued message  for  preprocessing.   It  will  try
              again later.
              qmail-send  is  unable  to  queue a bounce message,
              usually because the machine is almost out  of  mem-
              ory.  It will try again later.

       unable to stat ...
              qmail-send  is unable to obtain information about a
              file that should exist.  It will try again later.

       unable to unlink ...
              qmail-send is unable to remove a file.  It will try
              again later.

       unable to utime ...
              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
              qmail-send is restarted.

       unknown record type in ...
              There is a serious bug  in  either  qmail-queue  or
              qmail-send.


SEE ALSO

       qmail-send(8)