NAME¶

prayer — standalone IMAP-based webmail server

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

prayer is the normal frontend daemon in the Prayer Webmail system. It is a simple HTTP server and proxy that serves icons and other static files, but firstly and foremostly forwards requests to the correct backend daemons based on session IDs passed either in cookies or as part of the URL.

The master daemon normally preforks a number of child processes that each will serve a configurable number of requests. The total number of child processes is limited to prevent denial of service attacks.

prayer accepts the following command-line options:

--config-file file

Reads configuration from file instead of the default.

--config-option name=value

Sets (overrides) the configuration option name to value. Any number of options can be specified in this manner.

--foreground

Debug mode. Run a single process in the foreground.

--disable-prefork

Disable preforking. The master daemon will listen for connections on the configured ports and spawn child processes one at a time.

--disable-session

Do not start the session server, prayer-session(8).

--

End of prayer options; remaining options will be passed to prayer-session(8).

ENVIRONMENT¶

PRAYER_CONFIG_FILE

Can be set to specify the configuration file to use.

PRAYER_HOSTNAME

Local hostname. Overrides the hostname setting in the configuration file as well as on the command line.

FILES¶

/usr/local/prayer/etc/prayer.cf

Default configuration file.

/usr/local/prayer/icons/

Location of the standard icons used by the interface.

/usr/local/prayer/static/

Directory containing other static files; currently only CSS files.

/var/spool/prayer/sockets/

Pre-configured location of sockets for frontend to backend communication.

SEE ALSO¶

prayer-session(8), prayer.cf(5)

AUTHORS¶

This manual page was put together by Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org> using documentation written by David Carter <dpc22@cam.ac.uk>.