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)