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MASTER(5)							     MASTER(5)

NAME
       master - Postfix master process configuration file format

DESCRIPTION
       The  Postfix  mail  system  is  implemented by small number of (mostly)
       client commands that are invoked by users, and by a  larger  number  of
       services that run in the background.

       Postfix	services are implemented by daemon processes. These run in the
       background under control of the master(8) process.  The master.cf  con‐
       figuration file defines how a client program connects to a service, and
       what daemon program runs when a service is requested.  Most daemon pro‐
       cesses  are short-lived and terminate voluntarily after serving max_use
       clients, or after inactivity for max_idle or more units of time.

       All daemons specified here must speak a Postfix-internal	 protocol.  In
       order  to  execute  non-Postfix	software  use the local(8), pipe(8) or
       spawn(8) services, or run the  server  under  control  by  inetd(8)  or
       equivalent.

       After  changing	master.cf  you must execute "postfix reload" to reload
       the configuration.

SYNTAX
       The general format of the master.cf file is as follows:

       ·      Each logical line defines a single Postfix service.   Each  ser‐
	      vice  is	identified  by	its  name and type as described below.
	      When multiple lines specify the same service name and type, only
	      the  last	 one is remembered.  Otherwise, the order of master.cf
	      service definitions does not matter.

       ·      Empty lines and whitespace-only lines are ignored, as are	 lines
	      whose first non-whitespace character is a `#'.

       ·      A	 logical  line	starts	with  non-whitespace text. A line that
	      starts with whitespace continues a logical line.

       Each logical line consists of eight  fields  separated  by  whitespace.
       These  are described below in the order as they appear in the master.cf
       file.

       Where applicable a field of "-"	requests  that	the  built-in  default
       value  be  used.	 For boolean fields specify "y" or "n" to override the
       default value.

       Service name
	      The service name syntax depends on the service type as described
	      next.

       Service type
	      Specify one of the following service types:

	      inet   The  service listens on a TCP/IP socket and is accessible
		     via the network.

		     The service name is specified as host:port, denoting  the
		     host   and	 port  on  which  new  connections  should  be
		     accepted. The host	 part  (and  colon)  may  be  omitted.
		     Either  host  or port may be given in symbolic form (host
		     or service name) or in numeric form (IP address  or  port
		     number).	Host  information may be enclosed inside "[]",
		     but this form is not necessary.

		     Examples: a  service  named  127.0.0.1:smtp  or  ::1:smtp
		     receives mail via the loopback interface only; and a ser‐
		     vice named 10025 accepts connections on  TCP  port	 10025
		     via  all  interfaces  configured with the inet_interfaces
		     parameter.

		     Note:  with  Postfix  version  2.2	 and   later   specify
		     "inet_interfaces  = loopback-only" in main.cf, instead of
		     hard-coding loopback IP address information in  master.cf
		     or in main.cf.

	      unix   The service listens on a UNIX-domain socket and is acces‐
		     sible for local clients only.

		     The service name is a pathname relative  to  the  Postfix
		     queue    directory	   (pathname   controlled   with   the
		     queue_directory configuration parameter in main.cf).

		     On Solaris systems the  unix  type	 is  implemented  with
		     streams sockets.

	      fifo   The  service listens on a FIFO (named pipe) and is acces‐
		     sible for local clients only.

		     The service name is a pathname relative  to  the  Postfix
		     queue    directory	   (pathname   controlled   with   the
		     queue_directory configuration parameter in main.cf).

	      pass   The service listens  on  a	 UNIX-domain  socket,  and  is
		     accessible	 to  local  clients only. It receives one open
		     connection	 (file	descriptor  passing)  per   connection
		     request.

		     The  service  name	 is a pathname relative to the Postfix
		     queue   directory	 (pathname   controlled	   with	   the
		     queue_directory configuration parameter in main.cf).

		     This feature is available as of Postfix version 2.5.

       Private (default: y)
	      Whether  or not access is restricted to the mail system.	Inter‐
	      net (type inet) services can't be private.

       Unprivileged (default: y)
	      Whether the service runs with root privileges or as the owner of
	      the  Postfix  system  (the  owner	 name  is  controlled  by  the
	      mail_owner configuration variable in the main.cf file).

	      The local(8), pipe(8), spawn(8), and virtual(8) daemons  require
	      privileges.

       Chroot (default: y)
	      Whether  or  not	the  service  runs  chrooted to the mail queue
	      directory (pathname is controlled by the queue_directory config‐
	      uration variable in the main.cf file).

	      Chroot  should not be used with the local(8), pipe(8), spawn(8),
	      and virtual(8) daemons.  Although the proxymap(8) server can run
	      chrooted,	 doing	so  defeats most of the purpose of having that
	      service in the first place.

	      The files in the examples/chroot-setup subdirectory of the Post‐
	      fix source archive show set up a Postfix chroot environment on a
	      variety of  systems.  See	 also  BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README  for
	      issues related to running daemons chrooted.

       Wake up time (default: 0)
	      Automatically wake up the named service after the specified num‐
	      ber of seconds. The wake up is implemented by connecting to  the
	      service  and  sending  a wake up request.	 A ? at the end of the
	      wake-up time field requests that	no  wake  up  events  be  sent
	      before the first time a service is used.	Specify 0 for no auto‐
	      matic wake up.

	      The pickup(8), qmgr(8) and flush(8) daemons require  a  wake  up
	      timer.

       Process limit (default: $default_process_limit)
	      The  maximum  number  of processes that may execute this service
	      simultaneously. Specify 0 for no process count limit.

	      NOTE: Some Postfix services must	be  configured	as  a  single-
	      process service (for example, qmgr(8)) and some services must be
	      configured with no  process  limit  (for	example,  cleanup(8)).
	      These limits must not be changed.

       Command name + arguments
	      The  command to be executed.  Characters that are special to the
	      shell such as ">" or "|"	have  no  special  meaning  here,  and
	      quotes  cannot  be  used	to protect arguments containing white‐
	      space.

	      The command name is relative to  the  Postfix  daemon  directory
	      (pathname	 is  controlled	 by the daemon_directory configuration
	      variable).

	      The command argument syntax for specific commands	 is  specified
	      in the respective daemon manual page.

	      The  following command-line options have the same effect for all
	      daemon programs:

	      -D     Run the daemon under control  by  the  command  specified
		     with the debugger_command variable in the main.cf config‐
		     uration file.  See DEBUG_README for hints and tips.

	      -o name=value
		     Override the named main.cf configuration  parameter.  The
		     parameter	value  can  refer to other parameters as $name
		     etc., just like in main.cf.  See postconf(5) for syntax.

		     NOTE 1: do not specify  whitespace	 around	 the  "=".  In
		     parameter values, either avoid whitespace altogether, use
		     commas instead of spaces, or consider overrides like  "-o
		     name=$override_parameter" with $override_parameter set in
		     main.cf.

		     NOTE 2: Over-zealous use of parameter overrides makes the
		     Postfix  configuration  hard  to understand and maintain.
		     At a certain point, it might be easier to configure  mul‐
		     tiple instances of Postfix, instead of configuring multi‐
		     ple personalities via master.cf.

	      -v     Increase the verbose logging level. Specify  multiple  -v
		     options  to  make	a  Postfix daemon process increasingly
		     verbose.

SEE ALSO
       master(8), process manager
       postconf(5), configuration parameters

README FILES
       Use "postconf readme_directory" or "postconf html_directory" to	locate
       this information.
       BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README, basic configuration
       DEBUG_README, Postfix debugging

LICENSE
       The Secure Mailer license must be distributed with this software.

AUTHOR(S)
       Initial version by
       Magnus Baeck
       Lund Institute of Technology
       Sweden

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

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