qmail-log.5 (5979B)
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 This can also be caused by incorrect settings of 236 .B $QMAILQUEUE 237 or errors in a program or script which 238 .B $QMAILQUEUE 239 points to. 240 .TP 241 .B unable to stat ... 242 .B qmail-send 243 is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist. 244 It will try again later. 245 .TP 246 .B unable to unlink ... 247 .B qmail-send 248 is unable to remove a file. 249 It will try again later. 250 .TP 251 .B unable to utime ... 252 .B qmail-send 253 is about to exit, 254 and it is unable to record on disk 255 the next scheduled delivery time for a message. 256 The message will be retried as soon as 257 .B qmail-send 258 is restarted. 259 .TP 260 .B unknown record type in ... 261 There is a serious bug in either 262 .B qmail-queue 263 or 264 .BR qmail-send . 265 .SH "SEE ALSO" 266 qmail-send(8)