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NAME
     qmail-send - deliver mail messages from the queue

SYNOPSIS
     qmail-send

DESCRIPTION
     qmail-send handles messages placed into the  outgoing  queue
     by qmail-queue.  It uses qmail-lspawn to deliver messages to
     local recipients and qmail-rspawn  to  deliver  messages  to
     remote  recipients.   If a message is temporarily undeliver-
     able to one or more addresses, qmail-send leaves it  in  the
     queue and tries the addresses again later.

     qmail-send prints a readable record  of  its  activities  to
     descriptor  0.   It  writes commands to qmail-lspawn, qmail-
     rspawn, and qmail-clean on descriptors  1,  3,  and  5,  and
     reads responses from descriptors 2, 4, and 6.  qmail-send is
     responsible for avoiding deadlock.

     If qmail-send receives a TERM signal, it will exit  cleanly,
     after  waiting  (possibly  more  than  a minute) for current
     delivery attempts to finish.

     If qmail-send receives an ALRM signal,  it  will  reschedule
     every message in the queue for immediate delivery.

CONTROL FILES
     WARNING: qmail-send reads its control  files  only  when  it
     starts.   If you change the control files, you must stop and
     restart qmail-send.  Exception:  If  qmail-send  receives  a
     HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains.

     bouncefrom
          Bounce username.  Default:  MAILER-DAEMON.

     bouncehost
          Bounce host.  Default:  me, if that is supplied; other-
          wise the literal name bouncehost, which is probably not
          what you want.  If a message is permanently  undeliver-
          able,  qmail-send  sends a single-bounce notice back to
          the message's envelope sender.   The  notice  is  From:
          bouncefrom@bouncehost,  although its envelope sender is
          empty.

     concurrencylocal
          Maximum number of simultaneous local delivery attempts.
          Default:  10.   If  0,  local deliveries will be put on
          hold.  concurrencylocal is limited at compile  time  to
          120.

     concurrencyremote



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          Maximum  number   of   simultaneous   remote   delivery
          attempts.   Default:  20.  If 0, remote deliveries will
          be put on hold.  concurrencyremote is limited  at  com-
          pile time to 120.

     doublebouncehost
          Double-bounce host.  Default:  me, if that is supplied;
          otherwise  the  literal name doublebouncehost, which is
          probably not what you want.

     doublebounceto
          User to receive double-bounces.  Default:   postmaster.
          If a single-bounce notice is permanently undeliverable,
          qmail-send   sends   a    double-bounce    notice    to
          doublebounceto@doublebouncehost.    (If  that  bounces,
          qmail-send gives up.)

     envnoathost
          Presumed domain name for  addresses  without  @  signs.
          Default:   me,  if  that  is  supplied;  otherwise  the
          literal name envnoathost, which is  probably  not  what
          you  want.   If  qmail-send  sees an envelope recipient
          address without an @ sign, it appends @envnoathost.

     locals
          List of domain names that  the  current  host  receives
          mail  for, one per line.  Default:  me, if that is sup-
          plied; otherwise qmail-send refuses to run.  An address
          user@domain  is considered local if domain is listed in
          locals.

     percenthack
          List of domain names where the percent hack is applied.
          If  domain is listed in percenthack, any address of the
          form user%fqdn@domain is rewritten as user@fqdn.   user
          may  contain  %,  so  the  percent  hack may be applied
          repeatedly.   qmail-send  handles  percenthack   before
          recipientmap.

     queuelifetime
          Number of seconds a message  can  stay  in  the  queue.
          Default:  604800  (one week).  After this time expires,
          qmail-send will try the message once more, but it  will
          treat  any  temporary  delivery  failures  as permanent
          failures.

     recipientmap
          List of redirections, one per line.   Each  redirection
          has  the  form  recipient:rewritten,  without any extra
          spaces.  When qmail-send sees the address recipient, it
          replaces it with rewritten.  Both recipient and rewrit-
          ten must  include  domain  names.   qmail-send  handles



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          recipientmap before locals.

     virtualdomains
          List of virtual domains, one per  line.   Each  virtual
          domain  has  the form domain:prepend, without any extra
          spaces.  When qmail-send sees a  recipient  address  at
          domain,  say  user@domain,  it  converts it to prepend-
          user@domain and treats it as local.  For example, if

               nowhere.mil:joe-foo

          is  in  virtualdomains,  and  a  message  arrives   for
          info@nowhere.mil, qmail-send will rewrite the recipient
          address as  joe-foo-info@nowhere.mil  and  deliver  the
          message locally.  virtualdomains may contain wildcards:

               .fax:uucp-fax
               :alias-catchall
               .nowhere.mil:joe-foo-host

          virtualdomains may also contain exceptions:   an  empty
          prepend means that domain is not a virtual domain.

          qmail-send handles virtualdomains after locals:   if  a
          domain  is  listed  in  locals, virtualdomains does not
          apply.

SEE ALSO
     nice(1),   addresses(5),   envelopes(5),   qmail-control(5),
     qmail-log(5),    qmail-queue(8),    qmail-clean(8),   qmail-
     lspawn(8), qmail-rspawn(8)
























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