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            "NAME": {
                "content": "pickup - Postfix local mail pickup\n",
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                "content": "pickup [generic Postfix daemon options]\n",
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                "content": "The  pickup(8) daemon waits for hints that new mail has been dropped into the maildrop direc‐\ntory, and feeds it into the cleanup(8) daemon.  Ill-formatted files are deleted without noti‐\nfying the originator.  This program expects to be run from the master(8) process manager.\n",
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                "content": "None. The pickup(8) daemon does not interact with the outside world.\n",
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                "content": "The  pickup(8)  daemon is moderately security sensitive. It runs with fixed low privilege and\ncan run in a chrooted environment.  However, the program reads files from potentially hostile\nusers.  The pickup(8) daemon opens no files for writing, is careful about what files it opens\nfor reading, and does not actually touch any data that is sent to  its  public  service  end‐\npoint.\n",
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                "content": "Problems and transactions are logged to syslogd(8) or postlogd(8).\n",
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                "content": "The  pickup(8) daemon copies mail from file to the cleanup(8) daemon.  It could avoid message\ncopying overhead by sending a file descriptor instead of file data, but then the already com‐\nplex cleanup(8) daemon would have to deal with unfiltered user data.\n",
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                "content": "As the pickup(8) daemon is a relatively long-running process, up to an hour may pass before a\nmain.cf change takes effect.  Use the command \"postfix reload\" command to speed up a change.\n\nThe text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details  including\nexamples.\n",
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                "content": "contentfilter (empty)\nAfter the message is queued, send the entire message to the specified transport:desti‐\nnation.\n\nreceiveoverrideoptions (empty)\nEnable or disable recipient validation, built-in content filtering,  or  address  map‐\nping.\n",
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                "content": "configdirectory (see 'postconf -d' output)\nThe default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files.\n\nipctimeout (3600s)\nThe  time  limit  for  sending or receiving information over an internal communication\nchannel.\n\nlinelengthlimit (2048)\nUpon input, long lines are chopped up into pieces of at most this length; upon  deliv‐\nery, long lines are reconstructed.\n\nmaxidle (100s)\nThe  maximum  amount of time that an idle Postfix daemon process waits for an incoming\nconnection before terminating voluntarily.\n\nmaxuse (100)\nThe maximal number of incoming connections that a Postfix daemon process will  service\nbefore terminating voluntarily.\n\nprocessid (read-only)\nThe process ID of a Postfix command or daemon process.\n\nprocessname (read-only)\nThe process name of a Postfix command or daemon process.\n\nqueuedirectory (see 'postconf -d' output)\nThe location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.\n\nsyslogfacility (mail)\nThe syslog facility of Postfix logging.\n\nsyslogname (see 'postconf -d' output)\nA  prefix  that is prepended to the process name in syslog records, so that, for exam‐\nple, \"smtpd\" becomes \"prefix/smtpd\".\n\nAvailable in Postfix 3.3 and later:\n\nservicename (read-only)\nThe master.cf service name of a Postfix daemon process.\n\nAvailable in Postfix 3.5 and later:\n\ninfologaddressformat (external)\nThe email address form that will be used in non-debug logging (info, warning, etc.).\n",
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                "content": "cleanup(8), message canonicalization\nsendmail(1), Sendmail-compatible interface\npostdrop(1), mail posting agent\npostconf(5), configuration parameters\nmaster(5), generic daemon options\nmaster(8), process manager\npostlogd(8), Postfix logging\nsyslogd(8), system logging\n",
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                "content": "The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.\n\nAUTHOR(S)\nWietse Venema\nIBM T.J. Watson Research\nP.O. Box 704\nYorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA\n\nWietse Venema\nGoogle, Inc.\n111 8th Avenue\nNew York, NY 10011, USA\n\n\n\nPICKUP(8postfix)",
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