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PICKUP(8) PICKUP(8)
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<b>NAME</b>
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pickup - Postfix local mail pickup
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<b>SYNOPSIS</b>
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<b>pickup</b> [generic Postfix daemon options]
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<b>DESCRIPTION</b>
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The <b>pickup</b> daemon waits for hints that new mail has been
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dropped into the world-writable <b>maildrop</b> directory, and
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feeds it into the <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a> daemon. Ill-formatted files
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are deleted without notifying the originator. This pro-
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gram expects to be run from the <a href="master.8.html"><b>master</b>(8)</a> process manager.
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<b>STANDARDS</b>
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None. The <b>pickup</b> daemon does not interact with the outside
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world.
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<b>SECURITY</b>
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The <b>pickup</b> daemon runs with superuser privileges so that
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it 1) can open a queue file with the rights of the submit-
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ting user and 2) can access the Postfix private IPC chan-
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nels. On the positive side, the program can run chrooted,
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opens no files for writing, is careful about what files it
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opens for reading, and does not actually touch any data
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that is sent to its public service endpoint.
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<b>DIAGNOSTICS</b>
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Problems and transactions are logged to <b>syslogd</b>(8).
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<b>BUGS</b>
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The <b>pickup</b> daemon copies mail from file to the <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a>
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daemon. It could avoid message copying overhead by send-
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ing a file descriptor instead of file data, but then the
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already complex <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a> daemon would have to deal with
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unfiltered user data.
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<b>CONFIGURATION</b> <b>PARAMETERS</b>
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The following <b>main.cf</b> parameters are especially relevant
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to this program. See the Postfix <b>main.cf</b> file for syntax
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details and for default values. Use the <b>postfix</b> <b>reload</b>
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command after a configuration change.
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<b>Miscellaneous</b>
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<b>always</b><i>_</i><b>bcc</b>
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Address to send a copy of each message that enters
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the system.
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<b>mail</b><i>_</i><b>owner</b>
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The process privileges used while not opening a
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<b>maildrop</b> file.
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<b>queue</b><i>_</i><b>directory</b>
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Top-level directory of the Postfix queue.
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PICKUP(8) PICKUP(8)
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<b>SEE</b> <b>ALSO</b>
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<a href="cleanup.8.html">cleanup(8)</a> message canonicalization
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<a href="master.8.html">master(8)</a> process manager
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syslogd(8) system logging
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<b>LICENSE</b>
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The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this
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software.
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<b>AUTHOR(S)</b>
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Wietse Venema
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IBM T.J. Watson Research
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P.O. Box 704
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Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
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