SYNOPSIS

       qmail-start [ defaultdelivery [ logger arg ...  ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-start  invokes qmail-send,	qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and	qmail-
       clean, under the	proper uids and	gids.  These four daemons cooperate to
       deliver messages	from the queue.

       qmail-start  arranges  for  qmail-send's	 activity record to be sent to
       qmail-start's output.  See qmail-log(5) for the format of the  activity
       record.	 Other than this, qmail-start does not print anything, even on
       failure.

       If defaultdelivery is supplied, qmail-start passes it to	 qmail-lspawn.

       If  logger is supplied, qmail-start invokes logger with the given argu-
       ments, and feeds	qmail-send's activity record through logger.

       Environment variables given to qmail-start will eventually be passed on
       to  qmail-local,	 so  make  sure	to clean up the	environment if you run
       qmail-start manually:

	  # env	- PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH"
	  qmail-start ./Mailbox	splogger qmail &
	  (all on one line)

       Resource	limits,	controlling ttys, et al. are also passed  from	qmail-
       start to	qmail-local.

       Note  that qmail-send normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries.
       To reduce qmail-send's impact on	other programs,	 you  can  run	qmail-
       start with a low	priority.

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)



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