postkick1

Usage

Overview

The postkick(1) command sends request to the specified service over a local transport channel. This command makes Postfix private IPC accessible for use in, for example, shell scripts.

Options:

-c config_dir

Read the main.cf configuration file in the named directory instead of the default configuration directory.

-v

Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -v options make the software increasingly verbose.

Arguments:

class

Name of a class of local transport channel endpoints, either public (accessible by any local user) or private (administrative access only).

service

The name of a local transport endpoint within the named class.

request

A string. The list of valid requests is service-specific.

Diagnostics

Problems and transactions are logged to the standard error stream.

Environment

MAIL_CONFIG

Directory with Postfix configuration files.

MAIL_VERBOSE

Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes.

Configuration parameters

The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant to this program. The text below provides only a parameter summary. See postconf(5) for more details including examples.

config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)

The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration files.

application_event_drain_time (100s)

How long the postkick(1) command waits for a request to enter the Postfix daemon process input buffer before giving up.

import_environment (see 'postconf -d' output)

The list of environment variables that a privileged Postfix process will import from a non-Postfix parent process, or name=value environment overrides.

queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)

The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

Files

/var/spool/postfix/private, private class endpoints
/var/spool/postfix/public, public class endpoints

Author(s)

Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Wietse Venema
Google, Inc.
111 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10011, USA