Postfix as "normal" daemon under 18.04?

[Robert Heller]

Nevermind, Ubuntu is just being its usual weird self... (It works, once I
fixed an incorrect directory setting in main.cf).

At Tue,  9 Feb 2021 12:44:07 -0500 (EST) Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

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> How do I get Postfix to run as a "normal" daemon under Ubuntu 18.04?
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> I installed postfix on a Ubuntu 18.04 server and copied a batch of config 
> files from a CentOS 6 system.  But postfix under Ubuntu 18.04 is weird.  The 
> main postfix service file (/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service) does not 
> actually start the daemon (like it does with a CentOS 7 system), instead there 
> is a /lib/systemd/system/postfix at .service file, that gets called to create 
> instances.  What is going on here?  Is there some strange and exotic magic 
> involved?  Is it not possible to just run postfix as a regular deamon?  
> 

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