.SH SYNOPSIS
.B qmail-start
[
-.I aliasempty
+.I defaultdelivery
[
.I logger arg ...
]
.BR qmail-lspawn ,
.BR qmail-rspawn ,
and
-.BR qmail-clean .
+.BR qmail-clean ,
+under the proper uids and gids.
These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue.
.B qmail-start
does not print anything, even on failure.
If
-.I aliasempty
+.I defaultdelivery
is supplied,
.B qmail-start
passes it to
(all on one line)
.EE
+Resource limits, controlling ttys, et al. are also passed from
.B qmail-start
-sets the uid and gid of each daemon properly.
+to
+.BR qmail-local .
Note that
.B qmail-send