qmail-queue(8)       Maintenance Procedures        qmail-queue(8)



NAME
     qmail-queue - queue a mail message for delivery

SYNOPSIS
     qmail-queue

DESCRIPTION
     qmail-queue reads a mail message from descriptor 0.  It then
     reads envelope information from descriptor 1.  It places the
     message into the  outgoing  queue  for  future  delivery  by
     qmail-send.

     The envelope information is an envelope sender address  fol-
     lowed by a list of envelope recipient addresses.  The sender
     address is preceded by the letter F and terminated  by  a  0
     byte.   Each  recipient  address is preceded by the letter T
     and terminated by a 0 byte.  The list of recipient addresses
     is  terminated by an extra 0 byte.  If qmail-queue sees end-
     of-file before the extra 0 byte, it aborts  without  placing
     the message into the queue.

     Every envelope recipient address must contain a username, an
     @ sign, and a fully qualified domain name.

     qmail-queue always adds a Received line to the  top  of  the
     message.   Other than this, qmail-queue does not inspect the
     message and does not enforce any restrictions  on  its  con-
     tents.   However,  the  recipients  probably expect to see a
     proper header, as described in qmail-header(5).

EXIT CODES
     0  if  qmail-queue  has  successfully  queued  the  message,
     nonzero  if  qmail-queue  has  failed  to queue the message.
     qmail-queue does not print diagnostics.

SEE ALSO
     addresses(5),    envelopes(5),    qmail-header(5),    qmail-
     inject(8), qmail-send(8), qmail-smtpd(8)