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	deliv-
	      eries.  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  configura-
	      tion  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, 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.

       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  con-
	      trols.

MESSAGES

       double bounce: discarding ...
	      Message  m  was discarded	due to an 'empty' recipient in double-
	      bounceto.

       triple bounce: discarding ...
	      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.

       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 nonexis-
	      tent 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  prepro-
	      cessing 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 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.

UNIFIED SMTPD/POP3D LOGGING

       qmail-smtpd  and	 qmail-popup  log  additional information in a unified
       extensible format Action::Type::Condition Information.

       Action is either	Reject,	Accept,	or additionally	Info.

       The Type	belongs	to the following information:

       SNDR   the client's hostname,

       TLS    labeling TLS connections,

       AUTH   for Authenticated	sessions. Further

       ORIG   relates to the return path F:<Return-Path>, and

       RCTP   to the forwarding	path T:<Forwarding-Path>, and finally

	   loadertypes.cdb.

       Bad_MIME
	   a base64 encoded MIME part matched an entry n badmimetypes.cdb.

       Bad_Mailfrom
	   the	provided  <Return-Path>	 matched an entry in badmailfrom addi-
	   tionally with the rejection conditions: '@' (address),  '*'	(wild-
	   mat), '-' (badmailfromunknown), and '+' (spoofing).

       Bad_Rcptto
	   the provided	<Forwarding-Path> matched an entry in badrcptto.

       DNS_Helo
	   the	client's  HELO/EHLO greeting did not match it's	FQDN or	no DNS
	   A/MX	RR was found as	indicated  with	 the  following	 symbols:  '='
	   (HELO/EHLO  does  not match TCPREMOTEHOST) ,	'A' (DNS A-Name	lookup
	   failed for HELO/EHLO) , 'M' (DNS MX lookup failed for HELO/EHLO).

       DNS_MF
	   no DNS MX RR	was found for the <Return-Path>.

       Failed_Rcptto
	   the <Forwarding-Path> did not match entry in	the provdided cdbs  as
	   per recipients.

       Invalid_Relay
	   the	none-RELAYCLIENT  provided  a <Forwarding-Path>	not allowed as
	   per rcpthosts or morercpthosts.cdb.

       Invalid_Sender
	   the <Return-Path> of	a RELAYCLIENT did not match the	provided value
	   of  LOCALMFCHECK  or	did not	match against mailfromrules.cdb	or was
	   not found in	rcpthosts or morercpthosts.cdb.

       Invalid_Size
	   the message size exceeded the maximum as provided by	 DATEBYTES  or
	   databytes.

       Toomany_Rcptto
	   the	number	of  Recipients ('RCPT TO:') exaggerated	the value pro-
	   vided as MAXRECPIENTS.

       Cipher
	   TLS session used this cipher.

       Missing
	   depending on	the context, either the	 required  Start-TLS  or  AUTH
	   s/qmail: is not granted.

       Pam SMTP	authentication was granted by pam.

	   rcpthosts or	morercpthosts.cdb.


       The displayed Information:


       P:protocol
	   the effective SMTP or POP3 protocol in use.

       S:IP:FQDN
	   the	sender's  IP and  FQDN address available via TCPREMOTEIP(6) and
	   TCPREMOTEHOST.

       H:string
	   the client's	HELO/EHLO greeting string.

       F:Return-Path
	   the provided	'MAIL FROM:' address (if any).

       T:Forwarding-Path
	   the given 'RCPT TO:'	address.

       ?~ 'userid'
	   in case of authentication the provided userid.

       != 'DN'
	   in case of a	TLS session, the presented client's 'Subject'  Distin-
	   guished Name	(DN) - if available (otherwise 'unknown').

SEE ALSO

       qmail-send(8), qmail-smtpd(8), qmail-control(9)



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