POSTDROP(1) General Commands Manual POSTDROP(1)

postdrop - Postfix mail posting utility

postdrop [-rv] [-c config_dir]

The postdrop(1) command creates a file in the maildrop directory and copies its standard input to the file.

Options:

The main.cf configuration file is in the named directory instead of the default configuration directory. See also the MAIL_CONFIG environment setting below.
Use a Postfix-internal protocol for reading the message from standard input, and for reporting status information on standard output. This is currently the only supported method.
Enable verbose logging for debugging purposes. Multiple -v options make the software increasingly verbose. As of Postfix 2.3, this option is available for the super-user only.



The command is designed to run with set-group ID privileges, so
    that it can write to the maildrop queue directory and so that it can
    connect to Postfix daemon processes.










Fatal errors: malformed input, I/O error, out of memory. Problems
    are logged to syslogd(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.











  

  
Directory with the main.cf file. In order to avoid exploitation of
      set-group ID privileges, a non-standard directory is allowed only if:






    
  
  • The name is listed in the standard main.cf file with the
      alternate_config_directories configuration parameter.
    • 
  
  • The command is invoked by the super-user.
    • 













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.



  

  
A list of non-default Postfix configuration directories that may be
      specified with "-c config_directory" on the command line, or via
      the MAIL_CONFIG environment parameter.

  

  
The default location of the Postfix main.cf and master.cf configuration
      files.

  

  
The list of environment parameters that a Postfix process will import from
      a non-Postfix parent process.

  

  
The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

  

  
The syslog facility of Postfix logging.

  

  
A prefix that is prepended to the process name in syslog records, so that,
      for example, "smtpd" becomes "prefix/smtpd".

  

  
The time limit for sending a trigger to a Postfix daemon (for example, the
      pickup(8) or qmgr(8) daemon).




Available in Postfix version 2.2 and later:



  

  
List of users who are authorized to submit mail with the
      sendmail(1) command (and with the privileged postdrop(1)
      helper command).










/var/spool/postfix/maildrop, maildrop queue








sendmail(1), compatibility interface
postconf(5), configuration parameters
syslogd(8), system logging










The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this
  software.








Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
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Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Wietse Venema
Google, Inc.
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