Am 10.06.2013 11:45, schrieb Sebastian Arcus:
> At the moment, if one of the interfaces specified with "listen=" in 
> dovecot.conf is not up when Dovecot is started,
> then Dovecot just refuses to start. Is there an option to make Dovecot start 
> anyway, and just use the interface
> when it becomes available? It is inconvenient to have Dovecot refuse to start 
> during boot because some interface is
> temporarily not available.
> 
> Then again, maybe there is some strong security reasoning behind the way 
> Dovecot behaves at the moment?

the main question is why do you not order the start of your services correctly
how should a application bind to a specific interface if it is not up?

listening on * is no problem in this case but you can hardly bind
to a non existing interface

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