qmail-newu - prepare address assignments for qmail-lspawn

qmail-newu [ directory ]

qmail-newu reads the assignments in directory/assign and writes them into directory/cdb in a binary format suited for quick access by qmail-lspawn. If directory is omitted qmail-newu uses /etc/indimail/users. Extra arguments provided after directory are silently ignored.

If there is a problem with directory/assign, qmail-newu complains and leaves directory/cdb alone.

qmail-newu ensures that directory/cdb is updated atomically, so qmail-lspawn never has to wait for qmail-newu to finish. However, qmail-newu makes no attempt to protect against two simultaneous updates of directory/cdb.

The binary directory/cdb format is portable across machines.

qmail-users(5), qmail-lspawn(8), qmail-pw2u(8),