COURIERESMTPD(8)

💌 COURIERESMTPD — the manual, but make it make sense 💌

okay bestie, this is courieresmtpd, section 8 of the manual (that's the "system admin / daemons" shelf, iykyk). It's the Courier mail server's ESMTP daemon and honestly? She's iconic but she does NOT want to be micromanaged. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

courieresmtpd — the Courier mail server's ESMTP daemon 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So the actual Courier ESMTP daemon — that's the mail transfer agent, aka the MTA, aka the girl doing the actual work — is called courieresmtpd. That's her name, that's her whole identity, no notes. 👑

Normally, courieresmtpd is run from couriertcpd, which is in turn run from esmtpd start or some similar command. It's a whole chain of command, like a group chat where everyone has their role and nobody's stepping on anybody's toes. 🌈

Important, bestie: you should NOT have to run courieresmtpd manually. Like, at all. She gets launched by the machinery that's already set up to launch her. Launching her by hand is giving "I'll just restart the router" energy. Don't. 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• couriertcpd(8) — the one who actually spawns her
• esmtpd(8) — the one who tells couriertcpd what to do

Double Precision, Inc. wrote this back on 21 April 2003, and that's the source/version + date of the page — shoutout to them for a manpage that just says "don't touch it, it's handled." main character restraint, fr fr. 💖✨🎀