postdrop (1)

Contents

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SECURITY
DIAGNOSTICS
ENVIRONMENT
CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
FILES
SEE ALSO
LICENSE
AUTHOR(S)

NAME

postdrop - Postfix mail posting utility

SYNOPSIS

postdrop [-rv] [-c config_dir]

DESCRIPTION

The postdrop(1) command creates a file in the maildrop directory and copies its standard input to the file.

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.

SECURITY



The command is designed to run with set-group ID privileges, so
that it can write to the maildrop queue directory and so that
it can connect to Postfix daemon processes.


DIAGNOSTICS




Fatal errors: malformed input, I/O error, out of memory. Problems
are logged to syslogd(8) and to the standard error stream.
When the input is incomplete, or when the process receives a HUP,
INT, QUIT or TERM signal, the queue file is deleted.


ENVIRONMENT









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.









CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS






The following main.cf parameters are especially relevant to
this program.
The text below provides only a parameter summary. See
postconf(5) for more details including examples.



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 (see 'postconf -d' output)

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).




FILES




/var/spool/postfix/maildrop, maildrop queue



SEE ALSO




sendmail(1), compatibility interface
postconf(5), configuration parameters
syslogd(8), system logging



LICENSE






The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.


AUTHOR(S)




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