NAME

       qmail-start - turn on mail delivery

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-start [ defaultdelivery [ logger arg ...  ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-start  invokes  qmail-send,  qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean, under the proper uids and
       gids.  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 format of the activity record.  Other than this, qmail-start does not print anything, even
       on failure.

       If defaultdelivery 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/lib/qmail/bin:$PATH"
          qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail &
          (all on one line)

       Resource limits, controlling ttys, et al. are also passed from qmail-start to qmail-local.

       Note  that qmail-send normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries.  To reduce qmail-send's impact on
       other programs, 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)

                                                                                                  qmail-start(8)