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POSTDROP(1)                                           POSTDROP(1)

<b>NAME</b>
       postdrop - Postfix mail posting utility

<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
       <b>postdrop</b> [<b>-rv</b>] [<b>-c</b> <i>config_dir</i>]

<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
       The <b>postdrop</b> command creates a file in the <b>maildrop</b> direc-
       tory and copies its standard input to the file.

       Options:

       <b>-c</b>     The <b>main.cf</b> configuration  file  is  in  the  named
              directory  instead  of  the  default  configuration
              directory. See  also  the  MAIL_CONFIG  environment
              setting below.

       <b>-r</b>     Use  a  Postfix-internal  protocol  for reading the
              message from standard input, and for reporting sta-
              tus  information  on  standard output. This is cur-
              rently the only supported method.

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

<b>SECURITY</b>
       The command is designed to run with  set-group  ID  privi-
       leges,  so  that it can write to the <b>maildrop</b> queue direc-
       tory and so that it can connect  to  Postfix  daemon  pro-
       cesses.

<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b>
       Fatal  errors:  malformed input, I/O error, out of memory.
       Problems are logged to  <b>syslogd</b>(8)  and  to  the  standard
       error  stream.   When the input is incomplete, or when the
       process receives a HUP, INT,  QUIT  or  TERM  signal,  the
       queue file is deleted.

<b>ENVIRONMENT</b>
       MAIL_CONFIG
              Directory  with the <b>main.cf</b> file. In order to avoid
              exploitation of set-group ID privileges, it is  not
              possible to specify arbitrary directory names.

              A  non-standard  directory  is  allowed only if the
              name is listed in the standard <b>main.cf</b> file, in the
              <b>alternate</b><i>_</i><b>config</b><i>_</i><b>directories</b>  configuration parame-
              ter value.

              Only the superuser is allowed to specify  arbitrary
              directory names.

<b>FILES</b>
       /var/spool/postfix, mail queue
       /etc/postfix, configuration files

<b>CONFIGURATION</b> <b>PARAMETERS</b>
       See  the  Postfix  <b>main.cf</b> file for syntax details and for
       default values. Use the <b>postfix</b>  <b>reload</b>  command  after  a
       configuration change.

       <b>import</b><i>_</i><b>environment</b>
              List of names of environment parameters that can be
              imported from non-Postfix processes.

       <b>queue</b><i>_</i><b>directory</b>
              Top-level directory of the Postfix queue.  This  is
              also the root directory of Postfix daemons that run
              chrooted.

<b>SEE</b> <b>ALSO</b>
       <a href="sendmail.1.html">sendmail(1)</a> compatibility interface
       syslogd(8) system logging

<b>LICENSE</b>
       The Secure Mailer license must be  distributed  with  this
       software.

<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
       Wietse Venema
       IBM T.J. Watson Research
       P.O. Box 704
       Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

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