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7POSTKICK(1)                                                        POSTKICK(1)
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9<b>NAME</b>
10       postkick - kick a Postfix service
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12<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
13       <b>postkick</b> [<b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>] [<b>-v</b>] <i>class service request</i>
14
15<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
16       The  <a href="postkick.1.html"><b>postkick</b>(1)</a>  command  sends  <i>request</i> to the specified
17       <i>service</i> over a  local  transport  channel.   This  command
18       makes Postfix private IPC accessible for use in, for exam-
19       ple, shell scripts.
20
21       Options:
22
23       <b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>
24              Read the <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> configuration file  in  the  named
25              directory  instead  of  the  default  configuration
26              directory.
27
28       <b>-v</b>     Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul-
29              tiple  <b>-v</b>  options  make  the software increasingly
30              verbose.
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32       Arguments:
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34       <i>class</i>  Name of a class of  local  transport  channel  end-
35              points,  either  <b>public</b>  (accessible  by  any local
36              user) or <b>private</b> (administrative access only).
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38       <i>service</i>
39              The name of a local transport endpoint  within  the
40              named class.
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42       <i>request</i>
43              A  string.  The  list of valid requests is service-
44              specific.
45
46<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b>
47       Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error
48       stream.
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50<b>ENVIRONMENT</b>
51       <b>MAIL_CONFIG</b>
52              Directory with Postfix configuration files.
53
54       <b>MAIL_VERBOSE</b>
55              Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes.
56
57<b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b>
58       The  following  <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> parameters are especially relevant
59       to this program.  The text below provides only a parameter
60       summary.  See <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>postconf</b>(5)</a> for more details including exam-
61       ples.
62
63       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b>
64              The default location of  the  Postfix  <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a>  and
65              <a href="master.5.html">master.cf</a> configuration files.
66
67       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#application_event_drain_time">application_event_drain_time</a> (100s)</b>
68              How  long  the  <a href="postkick.1.html"><b>postkick</b>(1)</a>  command  waits  for  a
69              request to enter the server's input  buffer  before
70              giving up.
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72       <b><a href="postconf.5.html#queue_directory">queue_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b>
73              The  location of the Postfix top-level queue direc-
74              tory.
75
76<b>FILES</b>
77       /var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints
78       /var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints
79
80<b>SEE ALSO</b>
81       <a href="qmgr.8.html">qmgr(8)</a>, queue manager trigger protocol
82       <a href="pickup.8.html">pickup(8)</a>, local pickup daemon
83       <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters
84
85<b>LICENSE</b>
86       The Secure Mailer license must be  distributed  with  this
87       software.
88
89<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
90       Wietse Venema
91       IBM T.J. Watson Research
92       P.O. Box 704
93       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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95                                                                   POSTKICK(1)
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