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📖 NAME

postkick - kick a Postfix service

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Send request to a Postfix service	postkick class service request	Send a request to a specified service over a local transport channel
Specify config directory	postkick -c /path/to/config class service request	Use an alternate configuration directory
Enable verbose logging	postkick -v class service request	Enable verbose logging for debugging

📜 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 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. 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 Postfix daemon process input buffer before giving up.
• import_environment (see 'postconf -d' output) — The list of environment parameters that a privileged Postfix process will import from a non-Postfix parent process, or name=value environment overrides.
• 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

Wietse Venema
Google, Inc.
111 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10011, USA

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