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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)