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qmail-queue.8
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qmail-queue.8
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.TH qmail-queue 8
.SH NAME
qmail-queue \- queue a mail message for delivery
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B qmail-queue
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B qmail-queue
reads a mail message from descriptor 0.
It then reads envelope information from descriptor 1.
It places the message into the outgoing queue
for future delivery by
.BR qmail-send .
The envelope information is
an envelope sender address
followed by a list of envelope recipient addresses.
The sender address is preceded by the letter F
and terminated by a 0 byte.
Each recipient address is preceded by the letter T
and terminated by a 0 byte.
The list of recipient addresses is terminated by an extra 0 byte.
If
.B qmail-queue
sees end-of-file before the extra 0 byte,
it aborts without placing the message into the queue.
Every envelope recipient address
should contain a username,
an @ sign,
and a fully qualified domain name.
.B qmail-queue
always adds a
.B Received
line to the top of the message.
Other than this,
.B qmail-queue
does not inspect the message
and does not enforce any restrictions on its contents.
However, the recipients probably expect to see a proper header,
as described in
.BR qmail-header(5) .
Programs included with qmail which invoke
.B qmail-queue
will invoke the contents of
.B $QMAILQUEUE
instead, if that environment variable is set.
.SH "FILESYSTEM RESTRICTIONS"
.B qmail-queue
imposes two constraints on the queue structure:
each
.B mess
subdirectory must be in the same filesystem as the
.B pid
directory; and each
.B todo
subdirectory must be in the same filesystem as the
.B intd
directory.
.SH "EXIT CODES"
.B qmail-queue
does not print diagnostics.
It exits
0 if
it has successfully queued the message.
It exits between 1 and 99 if
it has failed to queue the message.
All
.B qmail-queue
error codes between 11 and 40
indicate permanent errors:
.TP 5
.B 11
Address too long.
.TP
.B 31
Mail server permanently refuses to send the message to any recipients.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue ,
but can be used by programs offering the same interface.)
.PP
All other
.B qmail-queue
error codes indicate temporary errors:
.TP 5
.B 51
Out of memory.
.TP
.B 52
Timeout.
.TP
.B 53
Write error; e.g., disk full.
.TP
.B 54
Unable to read the message or envelope.
.TP
.B 55
Unable to read a configuration file.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue .)
.TP
.B 56
Problem making a network connection from this host.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue .)
.TP
.B 61
Problem with the qmail home directory.
.TP
.B 62
Problem with the queue directory.
.TP
.B 63
Problem with queue/pid.
.TP
.B 64
Problem with queue/mess.
.TP
.B 65
Problem with queue/intd.
.TP
.B 66
Problem with queue/todo.
.TP
.B 71
Mail server temporarily refuses to send the message to any recipients.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue .)
.TP
.B 72
Connection to mail server timed out.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue .)
.TP
.B 73
Connection to mail server rejected.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue .)
.TP
.B 74
Connection to mail server succeeded,
but communication failed.
(Not used by
.BR qmail-queue .)
.TP
.B 81
Internal bug; e.g., segmentation fault.
.TP
.B 91
Envelope format error.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
addresses(5),
envelopes(5),
qmail-header(5),
qmail-inject(8),
qmail-qmqpc(8),
qmail-send(8),
qmail-smtpd(8)