--- name: "qmail-log" section: "5" platform: "linux" package: "qmail" version: "1.06-6.2~deb10u1" release: "Debian 10 (Buster)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/qmail-log" --- # qmail-log(5) the qmail activity record ## 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 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 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 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 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)](/qmail-send/8.md)