redhat man page for postkick

POSTKICK(1)						      General Commands Manual						       POSTKICK(1)

NAME
       postkick - kick a Postfix service

SYNOPSIS
       postkick [-c config_dir] [-v] class service request

DESCRIPTION
       The  postkick command sends request to the specified service over a local transport channel.  This command makes Postfix private IPC acces-
       sible for use in, for example, shell scripts.

       Options:

       -c config_dir
	      Read the main.cf configuration file in the named directory instead of the default configuration directory.

       -v     Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -v options make the software increasingly verbose.

       Arguments:

       class  Name of a class of local transport channel endpoints, either public (accessible by any local user) or private (administrative access
	      only).

       service
	      The name of a local transport endpoint within the named class.

       request
	      A string. The list of valid requests is service-specific.

DIAGNOSTICS
       Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error stream.

ENVIRONMENT
       MAIL_CONFIG
	      Directory with Postfix configuration files.

       MAIL_VERBOSE
	      Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes.

CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
       The  following  main.cf parameters are especially relevant to this program. See the Postfix main.cf file for syntax details and for default
       values.

       queue_directory
	      Location of the Postfix queue, and of the local IPC communication endpoints.

SEE ALSO
       qmgr(8) queue manager trigger protocol
       pickup(8) local pickup daemon

LICENSE
       The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

AUTHOR(S)
       Wietse Venema
       IBM T.J. Watson Research
       P.O. Box 704
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

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