source: server/mail/postfix/postfix-desc.xml@ 25357c89

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<title>Contents</title>

<para>The postfix package contains <userinput>bounce</userinput>,
<userinput>cleanup</userinput>, <userinput>error</userinput>,
<userinput>flush</userinput>, <userinput>lmtp</userinput>,
<userinput>local</userinput>, <userinput>mailq</userinput>,
<userinput>master</userinput>, <userinput>newaliases</userinput>,
<userinput>nqmgr</userinput>, <userinput>pickup</userinput>,
<userinput>pipe</userinput>, <userinput>postalias</userinput>,
<userinput>postcat</userinput>, <userinput>postconf</userinput>,
<userinput>postdrop</userinput>, <userinput>postfix</userinput>,
<userinput>postkick</userinput>, <userinput>postlock</userinput>,
<userinput>postlog</userinput>, <userinput>postmap</userinput>,
<userinput>postqueue</userinput>, <userinput>postsuper</userinput>,
<userinput>qmgr</userinput>, <userinput>qmqpd</userinput>,
<userinput>sendmail</userinput>, <userinput>showq</userinput>,
<userinput>smtp</userinput>, <userinput>smtpd</userinput>,
<userinput>spawn</userinput>, <userinput>trivial-rewrite</userinput>,
and <userinput>virtual</userinput>.</para>

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<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>postfix</title>
<para>postfix is the program that starts and stops the mail delivery system.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>master</title>
<para>master is the resident process that runs bounce, cleanup, error, flush, 
lmtp, local, nqmgr, pickup, pipe, qmgr, qmqpd, showq, smtp, smtpd, spawn, 
trivial-rewrite and virtual on demand. These programs are not designed to 
work as user commands.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postqueue</title>
<para>postqueue implements the Postfix user interface for queue management.  
It implements all the operations that are traditionally available via the 
sendmail command.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>sendmail</title>
<para>sendmail implements the Postfix to Sendmail compatibility interface.  
mailq and newaliases are symlinks to sendmail.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>showq</title>
<para>showq will emulate the mailq command when the Postfix mail system is 
not running.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postsuper</title>
<para>postsuper does maintenance jobs on the Postfix queue.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postalias</title>
<para>postalias creates, queries or updates Postfix alias 
databases.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postcat</title>
<para>postcat prints the contents of a Postfix queue file in human-readable 
form.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postconf</title>
<para>postconf prints or changes the value of configuration 
parameters.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postdrop</title>
<para>postdrop creates a file in the maildrop directory and copies its standard input to the file.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postkick</title>
<para>postkick makes the mail system private IPC accessible for use in shell 
scripts.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postlock</title>
<para>postlock locks a file for exclusive access and executes a command
on that file.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postlog</title>
<para>postlog implements a logging interface for use in shell 
scripts.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>postmap</title>
<para>postmap creates, queries or updates Postfix lookup tables.</para></sect3>

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