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)