prayer-session — Prayer user session backend daemon

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

The Prayer Webmail Interface                     17 August 2008                                PRAYER-SESSION(8)

prayer-session  is  the  backend  process in the Prayer Webmail system. A fresh prayer-session backend is
       forked off whenever a user logs in.

       This process contains all of the permanent state associated with that login session including one or more
       connections to a IMAP server and possibly connections to accountd  servers.  prayer-session  communicates
       with  the user using HTML over HTTP connections via the prayer(8) proxy. Each login has a session ID that
       the front end processes use to find the correct backend.

       Backend server processes move into a dormant state after a certain period of  inactivity,  shutting  down
       IMAP  and  accountd  connections which can be easily resuscitated when the session wakes up. After a long
       period of inactivity, typically several hours the session process shuts down.

       prayer-session accepts the following command-line options:

       --config-filefile
               Reads configuration from file instead of the default /etc/prayer/prayer.cf.

       --config-optionname=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.

       PRAYER_CONFIG_FILE
               Can  be  set  to specify the configuration file to use. The --config-file option takes precedence
               over this variable.

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

/usr/local/prayer/etc/prayer.cf
               Default configuration file.

       /usr/local/prayer/templates/
               Location  of  standard  templates. The templates are compiled into prayer-session for performance
               reasons, so the template files are actually not used, but they are available for customization.

       prayer-session — Prayer user session backend daemon

prayer(8), prayer.cf(5)

prayer-session [--config-filefile] [[--config-optionname=value] ...] [--foreground]