qmail-log(5) Headers, Tables, and Macros qmail-log(5)
NAME
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
The local concurrency limit is 0, so qmail-send will
not perform any local deliveries.
remote deliveries will be put on
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, usually
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 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
qmail-send is unable to record a permanent failure,
usually because the disk is full. This is a very seri-
ous problem; qmail-send cannot proceed without record-
ing 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
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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 proceed 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
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) mes-
sage 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: ...
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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
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, usu-
ally because the disk is full. It will try again
later.
trouble marking ...
qmail-send was unable to record the result of a suc-
cessful 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 mes-
sage, 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 message,
usually because the disk is full. It will try again
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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.
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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