The imta restart command stops any IMTA Job Controller or IMTA Service Dispatcher jobs that are running, and restarts the IMTA Job Controller and IMTA Service Dispatcher. Detached IMTA processes should be restarted whenever the IMTA configuration is altered--these processes load information from the configuration only once and need to be restarted in order for configuration changes to become visible to them. In addition to general IMTA configuration files, such as the imta.cnf file, some components, such as the IMTA Service Dispatcher, have their own specific configuration files, for example, dispatcher.cnf, and should be restarted after changes to any of these files. The dispatcher.cnf file is only available in the Sun Internet Mail Server 3.5 - Enterprise Edition.
Note - You must be logged in as root to use this utility.
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component is an optional parameter that identifies a specific IMTA component to be restarted, for example, job_controller or dispatcher. Restarting the IMTA Service Dispatcher effectively restarts all the service components it handles. If no component name is given, all active components are restarted.
To restart the IMTA jobs, type: