qmail-log(5) qmail-log(5) NNAAMMEE qmail-log - the qmail activity record DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN qqmmaaiill--sseenndd prints a series of lines describing its activities. Each possible line is described below. SSTTAATTUUSS ssttaattuuss:: llooccaall _l//_L rreemmoottee _r//_R ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is waiting for _l local deliveries and _r remote deliv- eries. The concurrency limits are _L and _R. ssttaattuuss:: eexxiittiinngg qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is done. FFAATTAALL PPRROOBBLLEEMMSS aalleerrtt:: ccaannnnoott ssttaarrtt:: ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is unable to prepare itself for delivering messages; it is giving up. This normally indicates a serious configura- tion error, but it can be caused by a temporary lack of resources. aalleerrtt:: oohh nnoo!! lloosstt ...... One of the other daemons has died. qqmmaaiill--sseenndd will exit as soon as possible. SSEERRIIOOUUSS PPRROOBBLLEEMMSS aalleerrtt:: uunnaabbllee ttoo aappppeenndd ttoo bboouunnccee mmeessssaaggee...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is unable to record a permanent failure, usually because the disk is full. This is a very serious problem; qqmmaaiill--sseenndd cannot proceed without recording the results. It will try again in ten seconds. aalleerrtt:: oouutt ooff mmeemmoorryy...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd tried to allocate more memory and failed. It will try again in ten seconds. aalleerrtt:: uunnaabbllee ttoo ooppeennddiirr...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is having trouble reading a file list from disk, usu- ally because the system’s file descriptor table is full, but possibly because permissions are set incorrectly. It will try again in ten seconds. aalleerrtt:: uunnaabbllee ttoo sswwiittcchh bbaacckk...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was sent SIGHUP, and it is unable to reenter the queue directory. This is a very serious problem; qqmmaaiill--sseenndd cannot proceed outside the queue directory. It will try again in ten seconds. aalleerrtt:: uunnaabbllee ttoo rreerreeaadd...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was sent SIGHUP, but it is unable to read the new controls. It will continue operating with the original con- trols. MMEESSSSAAGGEESS nneeww mmssgg _m qqmmaaiill--sseenndd 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. iinnffoo mmssgg _m:: bbyytteess _b ffrroomm <<_s>> qqpp _q uuiidd _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 qqmmaaiill--qquueeuuee that queued the message. bboouunnccee mmssgg _m qqpp _q Message _m had some delivery failures. The long-term queue iden- tifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message is _q. ttrriippllee bboouunnccee:: ddiissccaarrddiinngg ...... Message _m had some delivery failures, but it is already a dou- ble-bounce message, so it must be thrown away. Triple-bounce messages do not exist. eenndd mmssgg _m qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is about to remove message _m from the queue. DDEELLIIVVEERRIIEESS ssttaarrttiinngg ddeelliivveerryy _d:: mmssgg _m ttoo ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is telling qqmmaaiill--llssppaawwnn or qqmmaaiill--rrssppaawwnn to deliver message _m to one recipient. The delivery number, _d, starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery. ddeelliivveerryy _d:: ssuucccceessss:: ...... Delivery _d was successful. ddeelliivveerryy _d:: ffaaiilluurree:: ...... Delivery _d failed permanently. The message will bounce. ddeelliivveerryy _d:: ddeeffeerrrraall:: ...... Delivery _d failed temporarily. This recipient will be retried later. ddeelliivveerryy _d:: rreeppoorrtt mmaanngglleedd,, wwiillll ddeeffeerr There is a serious bug in qqmmaaiill--llssppaawwnn or qqmmaaiill--rrssppaawwnn. This recipient will be retried later. WWAARRNNIINNGGSS iinntteerrnnaall eerrrroorr:: ddeelliivveerryy rreeppoorrtt oouutt ooff rraannggee qqmmaaiill--llssppaawwnn or qqmmaaiill--rrssppaawwnn has supplied a report on a nonexis- tent delivery. This is a serious bug. qqmmaaiill--cclleeaann uunnaabbllee ttoo cclleeaann uupp ...... For some reason qqmmaaiill--cclleeaann is unable to remove the indicated file. It will try again later. ttrroouubbllee ffssyynncciinngg ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was unable to write to disk the results of prepro- cessing a queued message. It will try again later. ttrroouubbllee iinn sseelleecctt There is an operating system bug. ttrroouubbllee iinnjjeeccttiinngg bboouunnccee mmeessssaaggee...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was unable to queue a bounce message, usually because the disk is full. It will try again later. ttrroouubbllee mmaarrkkiinngg ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was unable to record the result of a successful or permanently unsuccessful delivery. This means that the delivery will be tried again later. ttrroouubbllee ooppeenniinngg ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was unable to open the list of local or remote recip- ients for a message. It will try again later. ttrroouubbllee rreeaaddiinngg ...... Either qqmmaaiill--sseenndd 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. ttrroouubbllee wwrriittiinngg ttoo ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was unable to preprocess a queued message, usually because the disk is full. It will try again later. uunnaabbllee ttoo ccrreeaattee ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd was unable to preprocess a queued message, usually because the disk is out of inodes. It will try again later. uunnaabbllee ttoo ooppeenn ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is unable to read the envelope of a queued message for preprocessing. It will try again later. uunnaabbllee ttoo ssttaarrtt qqmmaaiill--qquueeuuee...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is unable to queue a bounce message, usually because the machine is almost out of memory. It will try again later. uunnaabbllee ttoo ssttaatt ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist. It will try again later. uunnaabbllee ttoo uunnlliinnkk ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is unable to remove a file. It will try again later. uunnaabbllee ttoo uuttiimmee ...... qqmmaaiill--sseenndd 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 qqmmaaiill--sseenndd is restarted. uunnkknnoowwnn rreeccoorrdd ttyyppee iinn ...... There is a serious bug in either qqmmaaiill--qquueeuuee or qqmmaaiill--sseenndd. SSEEEE AALLSSOO qmail-send(8) qmail-log(5)