qmail-start.9 (1532B)
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)