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
  server's input buffer before giving up.
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