qmail-start(8)

NAME
qmail-start - turn on mail delivery

SYNOPSIS
qmail-start

DESCRIPTION
qmail-start invokes qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean in the background. These four daemons cooperate to deliver messages from the queue. qmail-start arranges for qmail-send's activity record to be sent to qmail-start's output. Other than this, qmail-start does not print anything, even on failure. qmail-start adds the qmail program directory to PATH and passes PATH to each of the daemons. It removes all other environment variables. qmail-start sets the uid and gid of each daemon properly. Note that qmail-send normally juggles several simultaneous deliveries. To reduce qmail-send's impact on other programs, you can run qmail-start with a low priority.

SEE ALSO
logger(1), nice(1), qmail-clean(8), qmail-lspawn(8), qmail-rspawn(8), qmail-send(8)