smtpd -n smtp -t inet -u -o stress=

Posted May 21, 2013

Hello,

I have a lot of these lines when i use htop to see all the processes: smtpd -n smtp -t inet -u -o stress=

In total 33. What is this and what can i do with it. Or can i disable it. (Im not running a business)

Peter Oudenes

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Peter Oudenes • May 21, 2013

thank you for the feedback !

Kamal Nasser • May 21, 2013

These might be threads of one process. <br>It is probably postfix (http://www.postfix.org/smtpd.8.html). You shouldn’t disable it if you want to send/receive mail from/to your droplet.