qmail-start(8)                                     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/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.

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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