Dovecot installation

[Ryan Schmidt]

Hi Martin. Welcome to MacPorts!

On Mac OS X 10.4 and later, you use launchctl to control startup  
processes.

To start dovecot now, and cause it to be started every time you turn  
on or restart the computer, do this:

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dovecot.plist

To stop dovecot now, and cause it to no longer be started every time  
you turn on or restart the computer, do this:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/ 
org.macports.dovecot.plist


On May 25, 2008, at 10:01, Martin Krischik wrote:

> I am new to Mac and currently I am trying to move all the work I did
> up to now done by my linux server to my new mac pro.
>
> And very first task is my E-Mail collections which up to now was
> handled by a dovecot IMAP server. Only the dovecot does not work as
> expected and hunting the problem is made difficult by the fact that I
> can't restart the server. For those who know Linux: it's the
> equivalent to  "rcdovecot restart" or "/etc/init.d/dovecot restart"
> which I can't figure out.