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POSTKICK(1)                            General Commands Manual                           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 chan‐
       nel.  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 con‐
              figuration 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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