11Working With Mail Service

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Commands you can use to manage the Mail service in Mac OS X Server.

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:*

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Apple oxs manual Checking the Status of Mail Service, Viewing Mail Service Settings