| | 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) |
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