1<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3<html> <head> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> 5<title> Postfix manual - postdrop(1) </title> 6</head> <body> <pre> 7POSTDROP(1) POSTDROP(1) 8 9<b>NAME</b> 10 postdrop - Postfix mail posting utility 11 12<b>SYNOPSIS</b> 13 <b>postdrop</b> [<b>-rv</b>] [<b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>] 14 15<b>DESCRIPTION</b> 16 The <a href="postdrop.1.html"><b>postdrop</b>(1)</a> command creates a file in the <b>maildrop</b> 17 directory and copies its standard input to the file. 18 19 Options: 20 21 <b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i> 22 The <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> configuration file is in the named 23 directory instead of the default configuration 24 directory. See also the MAIL_CONFIG environment 25 setting below. 26 27 <b>-r</b> Use a Postfix-internal protocol for reading the 28 message from standard input, and for reporting sta- 29 tus information on standard output. This is cur- 30 rently the only supported method. 31 32 <b>-v</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul- 33 tiple <b>-v</b> options make the software increasingly 34 verbose. As of Postfix 2.3, this option is avail- 35 able for the super-user only. 36 37<b>SECURITY</b> 38 The command is designed to run with set-group ID privi- 39 leges, so that it can write to the <b>maildrop</b> queue direc- 40 tory and so that it can connect to Postfix daemon pro- 41 cesses. 42 43<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b> 44 Fatal errors: malformed input, I/O error, out of memory. 45 Problems are logged to <b>syslogd</b>(8) and to the standard 46 error stream. When the input is incomplete, or when the 47 process receives a HUP, INT, QUIT or TERM signal, the 48 queue file is deleted. 49 50<b>ENVIRONMENT</b> 51 MAIL_CONFIG 52 Directory with the <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> file. In order to avoid 53 exploitation of set-group ID privileges, a non- 54 standard directory is allowed only if: 55 56 <b>o</b> The name is listed in the standard <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> 57 file with the <b><a href="postconf.5.html#alternate_config_directories">alternate_config_directories</a></b> 58 configuration parameter. 59 60 <b>o</b> The command is invoked by the super-user. 61 62<b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b> 63 The following <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> parameters are especially relevant 64 to this program. The text below provides only a parameter 65 summary. See <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>postconf</b>(5)</a> for more details including exam- 66 ples. 67 68 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#alternate_config_directories">alternate_config_directories</a> (empty)</b> 69 A list of non-default Postfix configuration direc- 70 tories that may be specified with "-c <a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_direc</a>- 71 <a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">tory</a>" on the command line, or via the MAIL_CONFIG 72 environment parameter. 73 74 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 75 The default location of the Postfix <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a> and 76 <a href="master.5.html">master.cf</a> configuration files. 77 78 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#import_environment">import_environment</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 79 The list of environment parameters that a Postfix 80 process will import from a non-Postfix parent 81 process. 82 83 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#queue_directory">queue_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 84 The location of the Postfix top-level queue direc- 85 tory. 86 87 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#syslog_facility">syslog_facility</a> (mail)</b> 88 The syslog facility of Postfix logging. 89 90 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#syslog_name">syslog_name</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 91 The mail system name that is prepended to the 92 process name in syslog records, so that "smtpd" 93 becomes, for example, "postfix/smtpd". 94 95 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#trigger_timeout">trigger_timeout</a> (10s)</b> 96 The time limit for sending a trigger to a Postfix 97 daemon (for example, the <a href="pickup.8.html"><b>pickup</b>(8)</a> or <a href="qmgr.8.html"><b>qmgr</b>(8)</a> dae- 98 mon). 99 100 Available in Postfix version 2.2 and later: 101 102 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#authorized_submit_users">authorized_submit_users</a> (static:anyone)</b> 103 List of users who are authorized to submit mail 104 with the <a href="sendmail.1.html"><b>sendmail</b>(1)</a> command (and with the privi- 105 leged <a href="postdrop.1.html"><b>postdrop</b>(1)</a> helper command). 106 107<b>FILES</b> 108 /var/spool/postfix/<a href="QSHAPE_README.html#maildrop_queue">maildrop</a>, <a href="QSHAPE_README.html#maildrop_queue">maildrop queue</a> 109 110<b>SEE ALSO</b> 111 <a href="sendmail.1.html">sendmail(1)</a>, compatibility interface 112 <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters 113 syslogd(8), system logging 114 115<b>LICENSE</b> 116 The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this 117 software. 118 119<b>AUTHOR(S)</b> 120 Wietse Venema 121 IBM T.J. Watson Research 122 P.O. Box 704 123 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 124 125 POSTDROP(1) 126</pre> </body> </html> 127