261 lines
5.7 KiB
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261 lines
5.7 KiB
Groff
.TH qmail-log 5
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.SH NAME
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qmail-log \- the qmail activity record
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B qmail-send
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prints a series of lines describing its activities.
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Each possible line is described below.
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.SH "STATUS"
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.TP
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.B status: local \fIl\fB/\fIL\fB remote \fIr\fB/\fIR\fB ...
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.B qmail-send
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is waiting for
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.I l
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local deliveries
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and
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.I r
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remote deliveries.
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The concurrency limits are
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.I L
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and
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.IR R .
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.TP
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.B status: exiting
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.B qmail-send
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is done.
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.SH "FATAL PROBLEMS"
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.TP
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.B alert: cannot start: ...
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to prepare itself for delivering messages;
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it is giving up.
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This normally indicates a serious configuration error,
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but it can be caused by a temporary lack of resources.
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.TP
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.B alert: oh no! lost ...
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One of the other daemons has died.
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.B qmail-send
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will exit as soon as possible.
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.SH "SERIOUS PROBLEMS"
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.TP
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.B alert: unable to append to bounce message...
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to record a permanent failure,
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usually because the disk is full.
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This is a very serious problem;
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.B qmail-send
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cannot proceed without recording the results.
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It will try again in ten seconds.
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.TP
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.B alert: out of memory...
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.B qmail-send
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tried to allocate more memory and failed.
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It will try again in ten seconds.
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.TP
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.B alert: unable to opendir...
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.B qmail-send
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is having trouble reading a file list from disk,
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usually because the system's file descriptor table is full,
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but possibly because permissions are set incorrectly.
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It will try again in ten seconds.
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.TP
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.B alert: unable to switch back...
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.B qmail-send
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was sent SIGHUP,
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and it is unable to reenter the queue directory.
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This is a very serious problem;
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.B qmail-send
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cannot proceed outside the queue directory.
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It will try again in ten seconds.
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.TP
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.B alert: unable to reread...
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.B qmail-send
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was sent SIGHUP,
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but it is unable to read the new controls.
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It will continue operating with the original controls.
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.SH "MESSAGES"
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.TP
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.B new msg \fIm\fB
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.B qmail-send
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is going to preprocess a queued message.
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The message number,
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.IR m ,
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is its disk inode number.
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After a message is removed from the queue,
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its number can be reused immediately.
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.TP
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.B info msg \fIm\fB: bytes \fIb\fB from <\fIs\fB> qp \fIq\fB uid \fIu\fB
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Message
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.I m
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contains
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.I b
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bytes;
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its envelope sender is
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.IR s ;
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it was queued by a user with user ID
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.IR u .
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.I q
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is a long-term queue identifier,
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the process ID of the
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.B qmail-queue
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that queued the message.
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.TP
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.B bounce msg \fIm\fB qp \fIq\fB
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Message
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.I m
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had some delivery failures.
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The long-term queue identifier of the bounce (or double-bounce) message
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is
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.IR q .
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.TP
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.B triple bounce: discarding ...
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Message
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.I m
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had some delivery failures,
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but it is already a double-bounce message,
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so it must be thrown away.
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Triple-bounce messages do not exist.
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.TP
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.B end msg \fIm\fB
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.B qmail-send
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is about to remove
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message
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.I m
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from the queue.
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.SH "DELIVERIES"
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.TP
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.B starting delivery \fId\fB: msg \fIm\fB to ...
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.B qmail-send
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is telling
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.B qmail-lspawn
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or
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.B qmail-rspawn
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to deliver message
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.I m
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to one recipient.
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The delivery number,
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.IR d ,
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starts at 1 and increases by 1 for each new delivery.
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.TP
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.B delivery \fId\fB: success: ...
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Delivery
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.I d
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was successful.
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.TP
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.B delivery \fId\fB: failure: ...
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Delivery
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.I d
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failed permanently.
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The message will bounce.
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.TP
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.B delivery \fId\fB: deferral: ...
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Delivery
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.I d
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failed temporarily.
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This recipient will be retried later.
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.TP
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.B delivery \fId\fB: report mangled, will defer
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There is a serious bug in
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.B qmail-lspawn
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or
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.BR qmail-rspawn .
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This recipient will be retried later.
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.SH "WARNINGS"
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.TP
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.B internal error: delivery report out of range
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.B qmail-lspawn
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or
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.B qmail-rspawn
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has supplied a report on a nonexistent delivery.
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This is a serious bug.
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.TP
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.B qmail-clean unable to clean up ...
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For some reason
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.B qmail-clean
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is unable to remove the indicated file.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B trouble fsyncing ...
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.B qmail-send
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was unable to write to disk the results of preprocessing a queued message.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B trouble in select
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There is an operating system bug.
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.TP
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.B trouble injecting bounce message...
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.B qmail-send
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was unable to queue a bounce message,
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usually because the disk is full.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B trouble marking ...
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.B qmail-send
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was unable to record the result of a successful or permanently
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unsuccessful delivery.
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This means that the delivery will be tried again later.
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.TP
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.B trouble opening ...
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.B qmail-send
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was unable to open the list of local or remote recipients
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for a message.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B trouble reading ...
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Either
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to read a recipient list,
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or it is unable to read the envelope of a queued
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message, or it is out of memory.
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Whatever it was doing, it will try again later.
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.TP
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.B trouble writing to ...
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.B qmail-send
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was unable to preprocess a queued message,
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usually because the disk is full.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B unable to create ...
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.B qmail-send
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was unable to preprocess a queued message,
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usually because the disk is out of inodes.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B unable to open ...
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to read the envelope of a queued message
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for preprocessing.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B unable to start qmail-queue...
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to queue a bounce message,
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usually because the machine is almost out of memory.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B unable to stat ...
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to obtain information about a file that should exist.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B unable to unlink ...
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.B qmail-send
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is unable to remove a file.
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It will try again later.
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.TP
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.B unable to utime ...
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.B qmail-send
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is about to exit,
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and it is unable to record on disk
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the next scheduled delivery time for a message.
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The message will be retried as soon as
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.B qmail-send
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is restarted.
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.TP
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.B unknown record type in ...
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There is a serious bug in either
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.B qmail-queue
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or
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.BR qmail-send .
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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qmail-send(8)
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