Interpreting the Output

Some debugging output references C language structures that are internal to sendmail. For those it will help if you have access to sendmail source. One subroutine, called printaddr(), is used to dump complete details about all the recipients for a given mail message. This subroutine is used by many categories of debugging output, but rather than describe it repeatedly, we describe it once here and reference this description as needed.

The Output Produced by printaddr()

The sendmail program's internal printaddr() subroutine prints details about addresses. The sendmail program views an address as more than just an expression like wc@bcx.com. Internally, it represents every address with a C language structure. The printaddr() routine prints the values stored in most of the items of that structure. Its output looks like this:

ra=addr: mailer mnum (mname), host hname user `uname', ruser `rname' next=link, alias aname, uid uid, gid gid flags=fhex<names here> owner=owner, home="home", fullname="fname" orcpt="oparam", statmta=mta, status=status rstatus="rstatus" specificity=spec, statdate=statdate

First, sendmail prints the address in memory, ra, of the C language struct that contains the information necessary to deliver a mail message. It then prints the information in that structure:

• addr
• The mail address as text, e.g. you@uofa.edu
• mnum
• Number of the delivery agent to be used (an index into the array of delivery agents)
• mname
• Symbolic name of that delivery agent (from rule set 0, $#)
• hname
• Name of the recipient's host machine (from rule set 0, $@)
• uname
• Recipient's mail name (from rule set 0, $:)
• rname
• Recipient's login name, if known; otherwise, it is <null>
• link
• Address in memory of the next C language structure of information about the next recipient in the list of recipients
• aname
• Address in memory of the next C language structure of information about the alias that led to this address (if there was one)
• uid and gid
• The uid and gid assigned to this delivery agent. These values are derived from the ownership permissions of either a :include: file or a forward file (see "Delivery to Files").
• fhex
• A hexadecimal representation of the possible envelope flags. This is immediately followed by a list of the flags inside the angle brackets. (See Table 37.1 for a description of each flag.)
• owner
• The owner- that corresponds to the aname above, if there is one
• home
• Home directory of the recipient (for local mail only)

  Address Flags

  Name	Hex	Description
  QDONTSEND	Don't send to this address
  QBADADDR	This address is verified bad
  QGOODUID	The uid and gid fields are good
  QPRIMARY	Status was set from argv
  QQUEUEUP	Queue for later transmission
  QSENT	Message has been successfully delivered
  QNOTREMOTE	Not an address for remote forwarding
  QSELFREF	Address is part of a loop
  QVERIFIED	Address verified, but not expanded
  QBOGUSSHELL	User has no valid shell listed
  QUNSAFEADDR	Address acquired via unsafe path
  QPINGONSUCCESS	Give return on successful delivery
  QPINGONFAILURE	Give return on failure
  QPINGONDELAY	Give return on message delay
  QHASNOTIFY	Propagate notify parameter
  QRELAYED	Relayed to non-DSN aware system (DSN)
  QEXPANDED	Has undergone list expansion (DSN)
  QDELIVERED	Final delivery succeeded (DSN)
  QDELAYED	Message was delayed (DSN)

• fname
• Full name of the recipient if it is known
• oparam
• The ORCPT parameter to the SMTP RCPT command if there was one.
• mta
• The name of the MTA host (such as "other.dc.gov") that generated the Delivery Status Notification (DSN) message shown in rstatus
• status
• The DSN number as text
• rstatus
• The DSN message from the sending host's MTA.
• spec
• How specific this address is (unused as of V8.8.4)
• statdate
• The date and time the status of this address changed