OMG what is the "post-fix" process?

[aeaglex07]

this process I've never seen (as well as the IIDC) and it shows up in top everytime I startup my computer.
I am concerned my computer's being hacked or something.

 

[robbieduncan]

Does it actually have that hypen in it's name or is it postfix? Note that when we are talking about processes every single character is important! postfix is an open-source email server that might well be running on your Mac.

 

[TheStu]

I think it is supposed to be there.

 

[aeaglex07]

Does it actually have that hypen in it's name or is it postfix? Note that when we are talking about processes every single character is important! postfix is an open-source email server that might well be running on your Mac.

yeah it has the hyphen. the thing is I've never seen it before and my iMac doesnt run such a process and never has.

 

[robbieduncan]

yeah it has the hyphen. the thing is I've never seen it before and my iMac doesnt run such a process and never has.

In that case I'm not sure what it is. If you execute

ps -Al > ~/Desktop/ps.txt

in the terminal it should get a file on your desktop called ps.txt. Open this and search for post-fix. This may tell you the path that it was executed from (or not, depends on how it was launched)