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POSTKICK(1)                                                                                      POSTKICK(1)



NAME
       postkick - kick a Postfix service

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

DESCRIPTION
       The  postkick(1) command sends request to the specified service over a local transport channel.  This
       command makes Postfix private IPC accessible 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  configura-tion configuration
              tion directory.

       -v     Enable  verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -v options make the software increas-ingly increasingly
              ingly 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.  The text below provides
       only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.

       config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files.

       application_event_drain_time (100s)
              How long the postkick(1) command waits for a request to enter the server's input buffer before
              giving up.

       queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)
              The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

FILES
       /var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints
       /var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints

SEE ALSO
       qmgr(8), queue manager trigger protocol
       pickup(8), local pickup daemon
       postconf(5), configuration parameters

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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