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   1 .TH qmail-lspawn 8
   2 .SH NAME
   3 qmail-lspawn \- schedule local deliveries
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B qmail-lspawn
   6 .I defaultdelivery
   7 .SH DESCRIPTION
   8 .B qmail-lspawn
   9 reads a series of local delivery commands from descriptor 0,
  10 invokes
  11 .B qmail-local
  12 to perform the deliveries,
  13 and prints the results to descriptor 1.
  14 It passes
  15 .I defaultdelivery
  16 to
  17 .B qmail-local
  18 as the default delivery instruction.
  19
  20 .B qmail-lspawn
  21 invokes
  22 .B qmail-local
  23 asynchronously,
  24 so the results may not be in the same order as the commands.
  25
  26 For each recipient address,
  27 .B qmail-lspawn
  28 finds out which local user controls that address.
  29 It first checks the
  30 .B qmail-users
  31 mechanism; if the address is not listed there, it invokes
  32 .BR qmail-getpw .
  33 .B qmail-lspawn
  34 then runs
  35 .B qmail-local
  36 under the user's uid and gid.
  37 It does not set up any supplementary groups.
  38
  39 .B qmail-lspawn
  40 treats an empty mailbox name as a trash address.
  41 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  42 envelopes(5),
  43 qmail-users(5),
  44 qmail-getpw(8),
  45 qmail-send(8),
  46 qmail-local(8)