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Chapter 12 Working with the Mail Service 181
Managing the Mail Service
Mac OS X Server ships with some powerful tools to help administer you 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 list mail service configuration settings:
$ sudo serveradmin settings mail
To list a particular setting:
$ sudo serveradmin settings mail:
setting
To list a group of settings:
You can list a group of settings that have part of their names in common by typing
only as much of the name as you want, stopping at a colon (:), and typing 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, if you
want to work with the mail service from the command line, you’ll probably find it more
straightforward to work directly with the underlying Postfix and Cyrus agents.
For more information about these agents:
 See www.postfix.org for information about Postfix.
 See asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus for information about Cyrus IMAP/POP.