How does Postfix get started?

[Jerry LeVan]

I did get the rascal going...

Anyway I think it is sorta silly to charge someone $10.00 for a wrapper
around the postfix utilities.

I guess I should not be complaining too much, back when my Mac was  
taller than
wider, I wrote a couple of shareware programs.

I eventually came across Unix and the notion of free software and  
feel much
better giving my work away :)

Jerry
http://homepage.mac.com/levanj

On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Mike Friedman wrote:

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