.TH 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="QMAILHOME/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)