<html> <head> </head> <body> <pre> PICKUP(8) PICKUP(8) <b>NAME</b> pickup - Postfix local mail pickup <b>SYNOPSIS</b> <b>pickup</b> [generic Postfix daemon options] <b>DESCRIPTION</b> The <b>pickup</b> daemon waits for hints that new mail has been dropped into the <b>maildrop</b> directory, and feeds it into the <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a> daemon. Ill-formatted files are deleted with- out notifying the originator. This program expects to be run from the <a href="master.8.html"><b>master</b>(8)</a> process manager. <b>STANDARDS</b> None. The <b>pickup</b> daemon does not interact with the outside world. <b>SECURITY</b> The <b>pickup</b> daemon is moderately security sensitive. It runs with fixed low privilege and can run in a chrooted environment. However, the program reads files from poten- tially hostile users. The <b>pickup</b> daemon opens no files for writing, is careful about what files it opens for reading, and does not actually touch any data that is sent to its public service endpoint. <b>DIAGNOSTICS</b> Problems and transactions are logged to <b>syslogd</b>(8). <b>BUGS</b> The <b>pickup</b> daemon copies mail from file to the <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a> daemon. It could avoid message copying overhead by send- ing a file descriptor instead of file data, but then the already complex <a href="cleanup.8.html"><b>cleanup</b>(8)</a> daemon would have to deal with unfiltered user data. <b>CONFIGURATION</b> <b>PARAMETERS</b> The following <b>main.cf</b> parameters are especially relevant to this program. See the Postfix <b>main.cf</b> file for syntax details and for default values. Use the <b>postfix</b> <b>reload</b> command after a configuration change. <b>Content</b> <b>inspection</b> <b>controls</b> <b>content</b><i>_</i><b>filter</b> The name of a mail delivery transport that filters mail and that either bounces mail or re-injects the result back into Postfix. This parameter uses the same syntax as the right-hand side of a Postfix transport table. <b>Miscellaneous</b> <b>always</b><i>_</i><b>bcc</b> Address to send a copy of each message that enters the system. <b>queue</b><i>_</i><b>directory</b> Top-level directory of the Postfix queue. <b>SEE</b> <b>ALSO</b> <a href="cleanup.8.html">cleanup(8)</a> message canonicalization <a href="master.8.html">master(8)</a> process manager <a href="sendmail.1.html">sendmail(1)</a>, postdrop(8) mail posting agent syslogd(8) system logging <b>LICENSE</b> The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software. <b>AUTHOR(S)</b> Wietse Venema IBM T.J. Watson Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA PICKUP(8) </pre> </body> </html>