PMDF System Manager's Guide

To cause an already running server to restart, use the OpenVMS command

$ PMDF RESTART server

or the UNIX command

# pmdf restart server

Restarting will cause all servers on this node to exit when their currently open connections are closed. New servers will be started by the PMDF Service Dispatcher. Note that such a command will not restart a server if it has already exited.

On NT, you must restart the Dispatcher in order to restart its services such as POP3 and IMAP; use the command

C:\> pmdf restart dispatcher