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POSTKICK(1)                                           POSTKICK(1)


<b>NAME</b>
       postkick - kick a Postfix service

<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
       <b>postkick</b> [<b>-c</b> <i>config_dir</i>] [<b>-v</b>] <i>class</i> <i>service</i> <i>request</i>

<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
       The  <b>postkick</b>  command sends <i>request</i> to the specified <i>ser-</i>
       <i>vice</i> over a local transport channel.  This  command  makes
       Postfix  private  IPC  accessible for use in, for example,
       shell scripts.

       Options:

       <b>-c</b> <i>config_dir</i>
              Read configuration information from <b>main.cf</b> in  the
              named configuration directory.

       <b>-v</b>     Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Mul-
              tiple <b>-v</b> options  make  the  software  increasingly
              verbose.

       Arguments:

       <i>class</i>  Name  of  a  class  of local transport channel end-
              points, either  <b>public</b>  (accessible  by  any  local
              user) or <b>private</b> (administrative access only).

       <i>service</i>
              The  name  of a local transport endpoint within the
              named class.

       <i>request</i>
              A string. The list of valid  requests  is  service-
              specific.

<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b>
       Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error
       stream.

<b>ENVIRONMENT</b>
       <b>MAIL</b><i>_</i><b>CONFIG</b>
              Directory with Postfix configuration files.

       <b>MAIL</b><i>_</i><b>VERBOSE</b>
              Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes.

<b>CONFIGURATION</b> <b>PARAMETERS</b>
       The following <b>main.cf</b> parameters are  especially  relevant
       to  this  program. See the Postfix <b>main.cf</b> file for syntax
       details and for default values.

       <b>queue</b><i>_</i><b>directory</b>
              Location of the Postfix queue, and of the local IPC



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POSTKICK(1)                                           POSTKICK(1)


              communication endpoints.

<b>SEE</b> <b>ALSO</b>
       <a href="qmgr.8.html">qmgr(8)</a> queue manager trigger protocol
       <a href="pickup.8.html">pickup(8)</a> local pickup daemon

<b>LICENSE</b>
       The  Secure  Mailer  license must be distributed with this
       software.

<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
       Wietse Venema
       IBM T.J. Watson Research
       P.O. Box 704
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA










































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