qmail-lspawn(8)       Maintenance Procedures      qmail-lspawn(8)



NAME
     qmail-lspawn - schedule local deliveries

SYNOPSIS
     qmail-lspawn

DESCRIPTION
     qmail-lspawn  reads a series of local delivery commands from
     descriptor 0, invokes qmail-alias to perform the deliveries,
     and prints the results to descriptor 1.

     qmail-lspawn  invokes  qmail-alias  asynchronously,  so  the
     results may not be in the same order as the commands.

     For each recipient address,  qmail-lspawn  finds  out  which
     local  user  controls  that  address.   It  first checks the
     qmail-users mechanism; if the address is not  listed  there,
     it  invokes qmail-getpw.  qmail-lspawn then runs qmail-alias
     under the user's uid and gid.  It does not set up  any  sup-
     plementary groups.

     qmail-lspawn  treats  an  empty  mailbox  name  as  a  trash
     address.

SEE ALSO
     envelopes(5), qmail-users(5), qmail-getpw(8), qmail-send(8),
     qmail-alias(8)




























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