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=utf-8"> 5<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='postfix-doc.css'> 6<title> Postfix manual - postkick(1) </title> 7</head> <body> <pre> 8POSTKICK(1) POSTKICK(1) 9 10<b>NAME</b> 11 postkick - kick a Postfix service 12 13<b>SYNOPSIS</b> 14 <b>postkick</b> [<b>-c</b> <i>config</i><b>_</b><i>dir</i>] [<b>-v</b>] <i>class service request</i> 15 16<b>DESCRIPTION</b> 17 The <a href="postkick.1.html"><b>postkick</b>(1)</a> command sends <i>request</i> to the specified <i>service</i> over a 18 local transport channel. This command makes Postfix private IPC acces- 19 sible for use in, for example, 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 directory 25 instead of the default configuration directory. 26 27 <b>-v</b> Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple <b>-v</b> 28 options make the software increasingly verbose. 29 30 Arguments: 31 32 <i>class</i> Name of a class of local transport channel endpoints, either 33 <b>public</b> (accessible by any local user) or <b>private</b> (administrative 34 access only). 35 36 <i>service</i> 37 The name of a local transport endpoint within the named class. 38 39 <i>request</i> 40 A string. The list of valid requests is service-specific. 41 42<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b> 43 Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error stream. 44 45<b>ENVIRONMENT</b> 46 <b>MAIL_CONFIG</b> 47 Directory with Postfix configuration files. 48 49 <b>MAIL_VERBOSE</b> 50 Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. 51 52<b>CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS</b> 53 The following <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>main.cf</b></a> parameters are especially relevant to this pro- 54 gram. The text below provides only a parameter summary. See <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>post-</b></a> 55 <a href="postconf.5.html"><b>conf</b>(5)</a> for more details including examples. 56 57 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#config_directory">config_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 58 The default location of the Postfix <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a> and <a href="master.5.html">master.cf</a> con- 59 figuration files. 60 61 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#application_event_drain_time">application_event_drain_time</a> (100s)</b> 62 How long the <a href="postkick.1.html"><b>postkick</b>(1)</a> command waits for a request to enter 63 the Postfix daemon process input buffer before giving up. 64 65 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#import_environment">import_environment</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 66 The list of environment parameters that a privileged Postfix 67 process will import from a non-Postfix parent process, or 68 name=value environment overrides. 69 70 <b><a href="postconf.5.html#queue_directory">queue_directory</a> (see 'postconf -d' output)</b> 71 The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory. 72 73<b>FILES</b> 74 /var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints 75 /var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints 76 77<b>SEE ALSO</b> 78 <a href="qmgr.8.html">qmgr(8)</a>, queue manager trigger protocol 79 <a href="pickup.8.html">pickup(8)</a>, local pickup daemon 80 <a href="postconf.5.html">postconf(5)</a>, configuration parameters 81 82<b>LICENSE</b> 83 The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. 84 85<b>AUTHOR(S)</b> 86 Wietse Venema 87 IBM T.J. Watson Research 88 P.O. Box 704 89 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA 90 91 Wietse Venema 92 Google, Inc. 93 111 8th Avenue 94 New York, NY 10011, USA 95 96 POSTKICK(1) 97</pre> </body> </html> 98