What is starting the postfix daemon on Server?

[Dan Shoop]

At 11:04 AM -0700 5/18/07, Brian Willoughby wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Can anyone tell me how to prevent the postfix queue manager daemon 
>from running on Mac OS X Server?

Yes, don't run it.

Seriously.

While you may disable it's launching, what's to prevent it from being invoked?

>However, I still get a few messages delivered by postfix, such as 
>the daily email from calendar

Which probably invoke it.

>If anyone has a clue as to what is starting the postfix qmgr daemon, 
>I'd be happy to know how to defeat it.

remove it or disable access to it via ACLs, POSIX permissions or ownership, ...

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-dhan

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