postfix may starts several process, generally:
Postfix services are implemented by daemon processes. These run in the background, started on-demand by the master(8) process.
netstat -tulpn | egrep 'master|:25'
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 31278/master
tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN 31278/master
See Postfix - Configuration (File, List and Default values)
More http://www.postfix.org/master.5.html
There is a lot of configuration that you can see with their default value on this page.
The process on port 25 is the default and is defined in the smtp line of the master.cf
# ==========================================================================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ==========================================================================
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
It follows all configuration defined in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file.
Port 587
See: What are the SMTP Ports? (25, 465, 587)