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                "content": "postkick [-c configdir] [-v] class service request\n",
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                        "content": "increasingly verbose.\n\nArguments:\n\nclass  Name of a class of local transport channel endpoints, either public (accessible by any\nlocal user) or private (administrative access only).\n\nservice\nThe name of a local transport endpoint within the named class.\n\nrequest\nA string. The list of valid requests is service-specific.\n",
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                "content": "MAILCONFIG\nDirectory with Postfix configuration files.\n\nMAILVERBOSE\nEnable verbose logging for debugging purposes.\n",
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                "content": "The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant to this  program.   The  text  below\nprovides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.\n\nconfigdirectory (see 'postconf -d' output)\nThe default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files.\n\napplicationeventdraintime (100s)\nHow  long  the  postkick(1)  command  waits  for a request to enter the Postfix daemon\nprocess input buffer before giving up.\n\nimportenvironment (see 'postconf -d' output)\nThe list of environment parameters that a privileged Postfix process will import  from\na non-Postfix parent process, or name=value environment overrides.\n\nqueuedirectory (see 'postconf -d' output)\nThe location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.\n",
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                "content": "/var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints\n/var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints\n",
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                "content": "qmgr(8), queue manager trigger protocol\npickup(8), local pickup daemon\npostconf(5), configuration parameters\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\nPOSTKICK(1)",
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