Local Delivery Attempt Status Messages

• Table of Contents
• Success Status Messages
• Deferral and Failure Status Messages

Success Status Messages

When hvmail_report reports on a delivery to a local user, it appends an extra bit of information beginning with “did” to the end of its output. Here’s an example:

2017-06-07 13:18:48.299293500 success <return@example> mtaid=<> sendid=<> outmtaid=<>: did 0+0+1/

Here’s the section that contains the extra info:

did 0+0+1

The three numbers in this extra output tell us how many messages were delivered to a local Maildir, forwarded to another email address, and processed by a program, respectively.

In other words for the example log entry above, there were:

• 0 deliveries to a Maildir (the first number)
• 0 forwards to another email address (the second number)
• 1 forward to a program which processed the message (the third number)

The did 0+0+1 message may be suffixed with bounce fast-path, bounce lite-path, or fbl lite-path. This indicates the message was passed to one of the bounce processors for further processing.

Deferral and Failure Status Messages

Most local deliveries will include the did N+N+N status message as described above. There are however other messages that can be reported if something goes wrong.