| 1 | .TH qmail-start 8 |
| 2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | qmail-start \- turn on mail delivery |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 5 | .B qmail-start |
| 6 | [ |
| 7 | .I defaultdelivery |
| 8 | [ |
| 9 | .I logger arg ... |
| 10 | ] |
| 11 | ] |
| 12 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 13 | .B qmail-start |
| 14 | invokes |
| 15 | .BR qmail-send , |
| 16 | .BR qmail-lspawn , |
| 17 | .BR qmail-rspawn , |
| 18 | and |
| 19 | .BR qmail-clean , |
| 20 | under the proper uids and gids. |
| 21 | These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | .B qmail-start |
| 24 | arranges for |
| 25 | .BR qmail-send 's |
| 26 | activity record to be sent to |
| 27 | .BR qmail-start 's |
| 28 | output. |
| 29 | See |
| 30 | .B qmail-log(5) |
| 31 | for the format of the activity record. |
| 32 | Other than this, |
| 33 | .B qmail-start |
| 34 | does not print anything, even on failure. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | If |
| 37 | .I defaultdelivery |
| 38 | is supplied, |
| 39 | .B qmail-start |
| 40 | passes it to |
| 41 | .BR qmail-lspawn . |
| 42 | |
| 43 | If |
| 44 | .I logger |
| 45 | is supplied, |
| 46 | .B qmail-start |
| 47 | invokes |
| 48 | .I logger |
| 49 | with the given arguments, |
| 50 | and feeds |
| 51 | .BR qmail-send 's |
| 52 | activity record through |
| 53 | .IR logger . |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Environment variables given to |
| 56 | .B qmail-start |
| 57 | will eventually be passed on to |
| 58 | .BR qmail-local , |
| 59 | so make sure to clean up the environment if you run |
| 60 | .B qmail-start |
| 61 | manually: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | .EX |
| 64 | # env - PATH="QMAILHOME/bin:$PATH" |
| 65 | .br |
| 66 | qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail & |
| 67 | .br |
| 68 | (all on one line) |
| 69 | .EE |
| 70 | |
| 71 | Resource limits, controlling ttys, et al. are also passed from |
| 72 | .B qmail-start |
| 73 | to |
| 74 | .BR qmail-local . |
| 75 | |
| 76 | Note that |
| 77 | .B qmail-send |
| 78 | normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries. |
| 79 | To reduce |
| 80 | .BR qmail-send 's |
| 81 | impact on other programs, |
| 82 | you can run |
| 83 | .B qmail-start |
| 84 | with a low priority. |
| 85 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 86 | logger(1), |
| 87 | splogger(1), |
| 88 | nice(1), |
| 89 | qmail-log(5), |
| 90 | qmail-local(8), |
| 91 | qmail-clean(8), |
| 92 | qmail-lspawn(8), |
| 93 | qmail-rspawn(8), |
| 94 | qmail-send(8) |