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I'm new to OpenBSD and in the process of learning OpenSMTPD. I would have expected some sort of "restart" option from the smtpctl command, but it only has a stop with no start which might force a reread of smtpd.conf so changes take effect. Outside of rebooting the server, is the correct approach to kill smtpd followed by executing /etc/rc.d/smtpd somehow in the background? I feel like I'm missing something.

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Try:

/etc/rc.d/smtpd restart

If that doesn't work, go for 

/etc/rc.d/smtpd stop
/etc/rc.d/smtpd start
vic
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    don't forget **rcctl(8)**. I believe that is now the encouraged method, although functionally it is pretty much the same thing – pete Nov 21 '15 at 01:50