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NAME
       postkick - kick a Postfix service

SYNOPSIS
       postkick [-c config_dir] [-v] class service request

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

       Options:

       -c config_dir
              Read configuration information from main.cf in  the
              named configuration directory.

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

       Arguments:

       class  Name  of  a  class  of local transport channel end-
              points, 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. See the Postfix main.cf file for syntax
       details and for default values.

       queue_directory
              Location of the Postfix queue, and of the local IPC



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              communication endpoints.

SEE ALSO
       qmgr(8) queue manager trigger protocol
       pickup(8) local pickup daemon

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










































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