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diff --git a/sqmail-4.3.07/man/qmail-start.9 b/sqmail-4.3.07/man/qmail-start.9 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b801ac2 --- /dev/null +++ b/sqmail-4.3.07/man/qmail-start.9 @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +.TH s/qmail: qmail-start 8 +.SH NAME +qmail-start \- turn on mail delivery +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B qmail-start +[ +.I defaultdelivery +[ +.I logger arg ... +] +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B qmail-start +invokes +.BR qmail-send , +.BR qmail-lspawn , +.BR qmail-rspawn , +and +.BR qmail-clean , +under the proper uids and gids. +These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue. + +.B qmail-start +arranges for +.BR qmail-send 's +activity record to be sent to +.BR qmail-start 's +output. +See +.B qmail-log(5) +for the format of the activity record. +Other than this, +.B qmail-start +does not print anything, even on failure. + +If +.I defaultdelivery +is supplied, +.B qmail-start +passes it to +.BR qmail-lspawn . + +If +.I logger +is supplied, +.B qmail-start +invokes +.I logger +with the given arguments, +and feeds +.BR qmail-send 's +activity record through +.IR logger . + +Environment variables given to +.B qmail-start +will eventually be passed on to +.BR qmail-local , +so make sure to clean up the environment if you run +.B qmail-start +manually: + +.EX + # env - PATH="HOME/bin:$PATH" +.br + qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail & +.br + (all on one line) +.EE + +Resource limits, controlling ttys, et al. are also passed from +.B qmail-start +to +.BR qmail-local . + +Note that +.B qmail-send +normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries. +To reduce +.BR qmail-send 's +impact on other programs, +you can run +.B qmail-start +with a low priority. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +logger(1), +splogger(1), +nice(1), +qmail-log(5), +qmail-local(8), +qmail-clean(8), +qmail-lspawn(8), +qmail-rspawn(8), +qmail-send(8) |