Starting KumoMTA
Once KumoMTA has been installed and an initial policy script is in place, the server can be started with the following command:
It can be enabled as a service with:
You can check the status with:
It can also be started manually with:
- Using sudo allows it to run as a privileged user so it can access port 25 which is needed to send and receive from most MTAs.
- The daemon
kumod
is the MTA - The directive --policy makes kumod load the 'init.lua' file as configuration policy.
- The --user directive allows the server to drop privileges after attaching to port 25 so that it does not continue to run as root.
For more detailed output, prepend KUMOD_LOG=kumod=info
(or debug for even more detail):
$ sudo KUMOD_LOG=kumod=info /opt/kumomta/sbin/kumod \
--policy /opt/kumomta/etc/policy/init.lua --user kumod
If all goes well, it should return a PID and drop you back to a Linux prompt.
If KumoMTA does not start, refer to the Troubleshooting Page of the User Guide.
Last update:
2023-10-20
Created: 2023-03-13
Created: 2023-03-13