qmail-start(8)
NAME
qmail-start - turn on mail delivery
SYNOPSIS
qmail-start [ defaultdelivery [ logger arg ... ] ]
DESCRIPTION
qmail-start invokes qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmailrspawn, 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, qmailstart 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 arguments, 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 pro grams, you can run qmail-start with a low priority.