phacility/phabricator · warning · PhutilArgumentUsageException

Some specified messages do not exist: %s

Error message

Some specified messages do not exist: %s

What it means

show-inbound loaded `id IN (...)` against PhabricatorMetaMTAReceivedMail and got back fewer rows than IDs requested; the missing IDs are listed in the exception. Every ID must correspond to an existing received-mail row in the database this install points at.

Source

Thrown at src/applications/metamta/management/PhabricatorMailManagementShowInboundWorkflow.php:42

    $console = PhutilConsole::getConsole();

    $ids = $args->getArg('id');
    if (!$ids) {
      throw new PhutilArgumentUsageException(
        pht(
          "Use the '%s' flag to specify one or more messages to show.",
          '--id'));
    }

    $messages = id(new PhabricatorMetaMTAReceivedMail())->loadAllWhere(
      'id IN (%Ld)',
      $ids);

    if ($ids) {
      $ids = array_fuse($ids);
      $missing = array_diff_key($ids, $messages);
      if ($missing) {
        throw new PhutilArgumentUsageException(
          pht(
            'Some specified messages do not exist: %s',
            implode(', ', array_keys($missing))));
      }
    }

    $last_key = last_key($messages);
    foreach ($messages as $message_key => $message) {
      $info = array();

      $info[] = pht('PROPERTIES');
      $info[] = pht('ID: %d', $message->getID());
      $info[] = pht('Status: %s', $message->getStatus());
      $info[] = pht('Related PHID: %s', $message->getRelatedPHID());
      $info[] = pht('Author PHID: %s', $message->getAuthorPHID());
      $info[] = pht('Message ID Hash: %s', $message->getMessageIDHash());

      if ($message->getMessage()) {

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Solutions

1. Confirm the ID is an inbound (received) mail ID; use `bin/mail show-outbound` for sent mail.
2. Browse the received-mail list in the web UI to copy a valid ID.
3. Verify the install points at the intended database and the message still exists.

Example fix

// before
$ bin/mail show-inbound --id 987
// Exception: Some specified messages do not exist: 987

// after (987 was an outbound mail)
$ bin/mail show-outbound --id 987

// Confirm the rows exist before invoking show-inbound:
$messages = id(new PhabricatorMetaMTAReceivedMail())->loadAllWhere('id IN (%Ld)', $ids);
$missing = array_diff($ids, mpull($messages, 'getID'));
if ($missing) {
  fwrite(STDERR, 'No such received mail: '.implode(', ', $missing)."\n");
  exit(1);
}

When it happens

Trigger: Passing an outbound mail's ID (PhabricatorMetaMTAMail table) to show-inbound; IDs from old logs after the received-mail table was pruned; querying a different environment's database than the one the mail arrived in; simple typo in the number.

Common situations: Confusing inbound vs outbound IDs; stale daemon logs; database switched by configuration or environment variables.

Related errors

• Some specified messages do not exist: %s
• Message type "%s" is unknown, supported message types are: %
• No such user '%s' exists.
• Specify one or more users to send a message to with "--to" a
• No configured mailers support outbound messages of type "%s"

AI-assisted analysis of phacility/phabricator@5720a38cfe (2026-08-21). Data as JSON: /api/errors/b5ebb09a9f3704cf. Report an issue: GitHub.