qmail-log(5)                                                    File Formats Manual                                                   qmail-log(5)

NAME

       qmail-log - the qmail activity record

DESCRIPTION

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

STATUS

       status: local l/L remote r/R ...
              qmail-send is waiting for l local deliveries and r remote deliveries.  The concurrency limits are L and R.

       status: exiting
              qmail-send is done.

FATAL PROBLEMS

       alert: cannot start: ...
              qmail-send  is  unable  to prepare itself for delivering messages; it is giving up.  This normally indicates 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 from disk, usually because the system's file descriptor table is full, but possibly
              because permissions are set incorrectly.  It will try again in ten seconds.

       alert: unable to switch back...
              qmail-send was sent SIGHUP, and it is unable to reenter the queue directory.  This is a very serious problem; qmail-send cannot pro-
              ceed outside the queue directory.  It will try again in ten seconds.

       alert: unable to reread...
              qmail-send was sent SIGHUP, but it is unable to read the new controls.  It will continue operating with the original controls.

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 number 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 delivery 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.

WARNINGS

       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 mem-
              ory.  Whatever it was doing, it will try again later.

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

       unable to create ...
              qmail-send was unable to preprocess a queued message, 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.

       unable to start qmail-queue...
              qmail-send is unable to queue a bounce message, usually because the machine is almost out of memory.  It will try again later.  This
              can also be caused by incorrect settings of $QMAILQUEUE or errors in a program or script which $QMAILQUEUE points to.

       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)

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