NAME

       qmail-newu - prepare address assignments for qmail-lspawn

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-newu

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-newu  reads  the  assignments  in  /var/lib/qmail/users/assign  and writes them into
       /var/lib/qmail/users/cdb in a binary format suited for quick access by qmail-lspawn.

       If there is a problem with users/assign, qmail-newu complains and leaves users/cdb alone.

       qmail-newu ensures that users/cdb is updated atomically, so qmail-lspawn never has to wait
       for  qmail-newu  to  finish.   However, qmail-newu makes no attempt to protect against two
       simultaneous updates of users/cdb.

       The binary users/cdb format is portable across machines.

SEE ALSO

       qmail-users(5), qmail-lspawn(8), qmail-pw2u(8)

                                                                                    qmail-newu(8)