postdrop [-rv] [-c config_dir]

Options:

-c config_dir

The main.cf configuration file is in the named directory instead of the default configuration directory. See also the MAIL_CONFIG environment setting below.

-r

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.

-v

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.

MAIL_CONFIG

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.

alternate_config_directories (empty)

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.

config_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)

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

import_environment (see 'postconf -d' output)

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

queue_directory (see 'postconf -d' output)

The location of the Postfix top-level queue directory.

syslog_facility (mail)

The syslog facility of Postfix logging.

syslog_name (postfix)

The mail system name that is prepended to the process name in syslog records, so that "smtpd" becomes, for example, "postfix/smtpd".

trigger_timeout (10s)

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:

authorized_submit_users (static:anyone)

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

Wietse Venema
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

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ENVIRONMENT

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