qmail-start(8) Maintenance Procedures qmail-start(8) NAME qmail-start - turn on mail delivery SYNOPSIS qmail-start [ aliasempty [ logger arg ... ] ] DESCRIPTION qmail-start invokes qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean. These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue. qmail-start arranges for qmail-send's activity record to be sent to qmail-start's output. See qmail-log(5) for the for- mat of the activity record. Other than this, qmail-start does not print anything, even on failure. If aliasempty is supplied, qmail-start passes it to qmail- lspawn. If logger is supplied, qmail-start invokes logger with the given arguments, and feeds qmail-send's activity record through logger. Environment variables given to qmail-start will eventually be passed on to qmail-local, so make sure to clean up the environment if you run qmail-start manually: # env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail & (all on one line) qmail-start sets the uid and gid of each daemon properly. Note that qmail-send normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries. To reduce qmail-send's impact on other pro- grams, you can run qmail-start with a low priority. SEE ALSO logger(1), splogger(1), nice(1), qmail-log(5), qmail- local(8), qmail-clean(8), qmail-lspawn(8), qmail-rspawn(8), qmail-send(8) SunOS 5.5 Last change: 1