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Chapter 12 Managing Mail Service 187
Managing Mail Service
Mac OS X Server ships with powerful tools to help you administer Mail service.
The following sections describe basic Mail service functions.
Starting and Stopping Mail Service
To start Mail service:
$ sudo serveradmin start mail
To stop Mail service:
$ sudo serveradmin stop mail
Checking the Status of Mail Service
To see summary status of Mail service:
$ sudo serveradmin status mail
To see detailed status of Mail service:
$ sudo serveradmin fullstatus mail
Viewing Mail Service Settings
To view Mail service configuration settings:
$ sudo serveradmin settings mail
To view a setting:
$ sudo serveradmin settings mail: setting
To view a group of settings:
You can view a group of settings that have part of their names in common by entering
as much of the name as you want, stopping at a colon (:), and entering an asterisk (*)
as a wildcard for the remaining parts of the name. For example:
$ sudo serveradmin settings mail:imap:*
Changing Mail Service Settings
You can use serveradmin to modify your server’s mail configuration. However, to work
with Mail service from the command line, you’ll probably find it more straightforward
to work with the underlying Postfix and Cyrus agents.
For more information about these agents see the following:
 For information about Postfix, see www.postfix.org.
 For information about Cyrus IMAP/POP, see asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus.