How does Postfix get started?

[Mike Friedman]

The program Postfix Enabler is about $10 and will allow you to  
configure a lot of the postfix behavior very easily.


On Jun 23, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:

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>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan at eku.edu>
>> Date: June 23, 2007 8:11:10 PM EDT
>> To: xadmin Admin <macosx-admin at omnigroup.com>
>> Subject: How does Postfix get started?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just bought a Mac Book Pro, regrettably the Migration Assistant
>> was not able to function with my setup).
>>
>> I have most of the stuff that I need moved to the MPB via
>> brute force...
>>
>> One thing I found sorta mysterious was how the Postfix mail
>> transfer agent actually got started.
>>
>> On my old G4, to the best of my knowledge, the critical
>> step was to set:
>>     MAILSERVER=-YES-
>> in /etc/hostconfig. ( And do some stuff with the config files...)
>>
>> When I tried to do the same on the MBP and rebooted, I found that
>> postfix was not started.
>>
>> I went back and tried to find exactly where postfix gets started  
>> on the G4
>> during the boot process and could find no trace of how it get
>> kicked off! ( I browsed the rc stuff in /etc and peeked at the
>> startup items in /System/Library and /Library...)
>>
>> Of course I have spent the better part of two days getting the
>> new MBP config'ed so fatigue might be playing a factor...
>>
>> The only way I could get postfix running on the MBP was to
>> create a rc.local and stick the command:
>>      /usr/sbin/postfix start
>> into the file.
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten me ie hit me with a clue stick on how
>> postfix is supposed to be started?
>
> I think I have the problem solved...It turns out that the files
> in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons are invisible in the finder.
>
> Navigating to the folder revealed and large number of launchd type
> files including org.postfix.master.plist.
>
> I edited org.postfix.master.plist on the MBP so that it matched the
> one on my G4. I commmented out the entry in the rc.local file
> and reboot
>
> On reboot the postfix "pickup" program was running and everything
> seems to be working...
>
>
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