Friday, June 06, 2008
Configure Postfix to launch at startup on OS X Leopard
Mac OS X Leopard comes with the Postfix SMTP server built-in. You can easily turn it on or off using "sudo postfix start" or "sudo postfix stop".
After you do, verify that it's running by doing a "telnet localhost 25" and checking that you get a response from Postfix. I verified these instructions on OS X 10.5.3, but it should be the same for all Leopard variants.
If you'd like the postfix server to always run at startup, simply do the following:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist
After you do, verify that it's running by doing a "telnet localhost 25" and checking that you get a response from Postfix. I verified these instructions on OS X 10.5.3, but it should be the same for all Leopard variants.
References
- "man launchctl" from the terminal
- http://diymacserver.com/installing-the-mailserver/the-basic-mailserver-on-leopard/starting-your-basic-mailserver-on-leopard/
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