On January 26, 2022 4:57:09 PM UTC, Laura Smith
<n5d9xq3ti233xiyif...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>Good news, I found the cause of of the problem.
>
>I was using interface aliases to permit different postfix instances.
>
>However these were configured in the traditional/legacy manner using
>/etc/network/interfaces.
>
>It seems that although the Postfix systemd unit employs the
>"network-online.target" dependency, this dependency does not recognise the
>legacy manner of configuring aliases.
>
>Therefore Postifx was crashing becuase it was unable to bind to the IPs that
>had not yet been bound to the interfaces.
>
>Once I re-configured networking in the modern style using systemd-networkd
>(/etc/systemd/network/if.network) Postfix was happy because the
>"network-online.target" dependency was now operating correctly.
If you would file a bug in the Debian BTS with the details, I would appreciate
it. I'd like to see what we can do in Debian to improve the situation.
Thanks,
Scott K
