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.
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 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
from disk, usually because the system's file
descriptor table is full, but possibly because per
missions 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 seri
ous 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 <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 longterm queue identifier of the bounce (or doublebounce) 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 qmailrspawn. 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 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. - unable to start qmail-queue...
- 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.