NAME

pmx - The PureMessage control program

NOTE

PureMessage is an email filtering solution that works in conjunction with a mail transfer agent (Postfix or Sendmail). This document describes the PureMessage control program pmx. See the pmx-intro manpage for an overview of PureMessage.

SYNOPSIS

    pmx start
    pmx stop
    pmx restart
    pmx status

    pmx prefix
    pmx config
    pmx version

    pmx help

DESCRIPTION

pmx is a generic control program for PureMessage. It is used to start, stop and monitor all the PureMessage services.

The pmx program should normally be run by the PureMessage user. pmx-init can be used instead when running as root, or for running from system startup and shutdown scripts.

The following sub-commands are recognized:

pmx start: This starts all of the PureMessage services. It invokes theservice control programs found in /opt/pmx6/etc/init.d directory one by one with the start argument.
pmx stop: This will shut down all the PureMessage services. It invokes the service control programs found in /opt/pmx6/etc/init.d directory one by one with the stop argument.
pmx restart: This will restart all the PureMessage services. It invokes the service control programs found in /opt/pmx6/etc/init.d directory one by one with the restart argument.
pmx status: This prints the current status for all running services. It invokes the service control programs found in /opt/pmx6/etc/init.d directory one by one with the status argument. See the pmx-milter documentation for a description of the status fields.
pmx prefix: This prints the location where PureMessage is installed.
pmx config: This prints information about the current configuration.
pmx version: This prints the version number of the PureMessage package and the current licensing information.
pmx help: Shows this manpage.

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