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<title>Postfix Anatomy - Command-line Utilities</title>
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<h1><a href="big-picture.html"><img src="small-picture.gif" width="115" height="45"></a> Postfix
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Anatomy - Command-line Utilities</h1>
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<a href="index.html">Up one level</a> | <a
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href="receiving.html">Receiving Mail</a> | <a
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href="delivering.html">Delivering Mail</a> | <a
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href="backstage.html">Behind the Scenes</a> | Command-line Utilities
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Enough daemon talk. The anatomy lesson ends with an introduction
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to command-line utilities for day-to-day use of the Postfix mail
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system. Besides the <a href="sendmail.1.html">sendmail</a>, <a
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href="sendmail.1.html">mailq</a>, and <a
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href="sendmail.1.html">newaliases</a> commands that were already
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introduced, the Postfix system comes with it own collection of
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utilities. For consistency, these are all named post<i>something</i>.
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<ul>
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<li>The <a href="postfix.1.html">postfix</a> command controls the
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operation of the mail system. It is the interface for starting and
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stopping the mail system, and for some other administrative
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operations. This command is reserved to the super-user.
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<li>The <a href="postalias.1.html">postalias</a> command maintains
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Postfix <a href="aliases.5.html">alias</a> databases. This is the
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program behind the <a href="newaliases.1.html">newaliases</a>
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command.
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<li>The <a href="postcat.1.html">postcat</a> command displays the
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contents of Postfix queue files. This is a limited, preliminary
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utility. This program is likely to be superseded by something more
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powerful that can also edit Postfix queue files.
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<li>The <a href="postconf.1.html">postconf</a> command displays
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Postfix <b>main.cf</b> parameters: actual values, default values,
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or parameters that have non-default settings. This is a limited,
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preliminary utility. This program is likely to be superseded by
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something more powerful that can not only list but also edit the
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<b>main.cf</b> file.
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<li>The <a href="postdrop.1.html">postdrop</a> command is the mail
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posting agent that is run by the <a href="sendmail.1.html">sendmail</a>
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command on systems that have no world-writable <b>maildrop</b> queue
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directory.
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<li>The <a href="postkick.1.html">postkick</a> command makes some
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internal communication channels available for use in, for example,
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shell scripts.
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<li>The <a href="postlock.1.html">postlock</a> command provides
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Postfix-compatible mailbox locking for use in, for example, shell
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scripts.
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<li>The <a href="postlog.1.html">postlog</a> command provides
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Postfix-compatible logging for shell scripts.
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<li>The <a href="postmap.1.html">postmap</a> command maintains
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Postfix lookup tables such as <a href="canonical.5.html">canonical</a>,
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<a href="virtual.5.html">virtual</a> and others. It is a cousin of
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the UNIX <b>makemap</b> command.
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<li>The <a href="postsuper.1.html">postsuper</a> command maintains
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the Postfix queue. It removes old temporary files, and moves queue
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files into the right directory after a change in the hashing depth
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of queue directories. This command is run at mail system startup time.
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<a href="index.html">Up one level</a> | <a
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href="receiving.html">Receiving Mail</a> | <a
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href="delivering.html">Delivering Mail</a> | <a
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href="backstage.html">Behind the Scenes</a> | Command-line Utilities
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</body>
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