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POSTKICK(1) General Commands Manual POSTKICK(1) NAME postkick - kick a Postfix service SYNOPSIS postkick [-c config_dir] [-v] class service request DESCRIPTION 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 parameters 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 SEE ALSO qmgr(8), queue manager trigger protocol pickup(8), local pickup daemon postconf(5), configuration parameters LICENSE The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. 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 POSTKICK(1)