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   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 aliasempty
   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 These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue.
  21
  22 .B qmail-start
  23 arranges for
  24 .BR qmail-send 's
  25 activity record to be sent to
  26 .BR qmail-start 's
  27 output.
  28 See
  29 .B qmail-log(5)
  30 for the format of the activity record.
  31 Other than this,
  32 .B qmail-start
  33 does not print anything, even on failure.
  34
  35 If
  36 .I aliasempty
  37 is supplied,
  38 .B qmail-start
  39 passes it to
  40 .BR qmail-lspawn .
  41
  42 If
  43 .I logger
  44 is supplied,
  45 .B qmail-start
  46 invokes
  47 .I logger
  48 with the given arguments,
  49 and feeds
  50 .BR qmail-send 's
  51 activity record through
  52 .IR logger .
  53
  54 Environment variables given to
  55 .B qmail-start
  56 will eventually be passed on to
  57 .BR qmail-local ,
  58 so make sure to clean up the environment if you run
  59 .B qmail-start
  60 manually:
  61
  62 .EX
  63    # env - PATH="QMAILHOME/bin:$PATH"
  64 .br
  65    qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail &
  66 .br
  67    (all on one line)
  68 .EE
  69
  70 .B qmail-start
  71 sets the uid and gid of each daemon properly.
  72
  73 Note that
  74 .B qmail-send
  75 normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries.
  76 To reduce
  77 .BR qmail-send 's
  78 impact on other programs,
  79 you can run
  80 .B qmail-start
  81 with a low priority.
  82 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  83 logger(1),
  84 splogger(1),
  85 nice(1),
  86 qmail-log(5),
  87 qmail-local(8),
  88 qmail-clean(8),
  89 qmail-lspawn(8),
  90 qmail-rspawn(8),
  91 qmail-send(8)