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qmail-lspawn(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   qmail-lspawn(8)

NAME

       qmail-lspawn - schedule local deliveries

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-lspawn defaultdelivery

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-lspawn  reads  a  series  of local delivery commands from descriptor 0, invokes qmail-local to perform the deliveries, and prints the
       results to descriptor 1.  It passes defaultdelivery to qmail-local as the default delivery instruction.

       qmail-lspawn invokes qmail-local asynchronously, so the results may not be in the same order as the commands.

       For each recipient address, qmail-lspawn finds out which local user controls that address.  It first checks the qmail-users  mechanism;	if
       the address is not listed there, it invokes qmail-getpw.  qmail-lspawn then runs qmail-local under the user's uid and gid.  It does not set
       up any supplementary groups.

       qmail-lspawn treats an empty mailbox name as a trash address.

SEE ALSO

       envelopes(5), qmail-users(5), qmail-getpw(8), qmail-send(8), qmail-local(8)

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qmail-start(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    qmail-start(8)

NAME

       qmail-start - turn on mail delivery

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 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/lib/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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