qmail-start(8) qmail-start(8) NNAAMMEE qmail-start - turn on mail delivery SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt [ _d_e_f_a_u_l_t_d_e_l_i_v_e_r_y [ _l_o_g_g_e_r _a_r_g _._._. ] ] DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt invokes qqmmaaiill--sseenndd, qqmmaaiill--llssppaawwnn, qqmmaaiill--rrssppaawwnn, and qqmmaaiill-- cclleeaann, under the proper uids and gids. These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue. qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt arranges for qqmmaaiill--sseenndd’s activity record to be sent to qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt’s output. See qqmmaaiill--lloogg((55)) for the format of the activity record. Other than this, qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt does not print anything, even on failure. If _d_e_f_a_u_l_t_d_e_l_i_v_e_r_y is supplied, qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt passes it to qqmmaaiill--llssppaawwnn. If _l_o_g_g_e_r is supplied, qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt invokes _l_o_g_g_e_r with the given argu- ments, and feeds qqmmaaiill--sseenndd’s activity record through _l_o_g_g_e_r. Environment variables given to qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt will eventually be passed on to qqmmaaiill--llooccaall, so make sure to clean up the environment if you run qqmmaaiill--ssttaarrtt 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 qqmmaaiill-- ssttaarrtt to qqmmaaiill--llooccaall. Note that qqmmaaiill--sseenndd normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries. To reduce qqmmaaiill--sseenndd’s impact on other programs, you can run qqmmaaiill-- ssttaarrtt with a low priority. SSEEEE AALLSSOO logger(1), splogger(1), nice(1), qmail-log(5), qmail-local(8), qmail- clean(8), qmail-lspawn(8), qmail-rspawn(8), qmail-send(8) qmail-start(8)