Re: local mail submission sendmail fails when loopback is down

2018-06-08 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Jun 8, 2018, at 6:47 AM, Daniel Armengod wrote: > > TL;DR: `sendmail ` fails with `sendmail: fatal: could not find > any active network interfaces` if loopback interface is not up. Is this > expected behaviour? Yes, expected. The failure is in common initialization code that is not send

local mail submission sendmail fails when loopback is down

2018-06-08 Thread Daniel Armengod
Hello all, TL;DR: `sendmail ` fails with `sendmail: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces` if loopback interface is not up. Is this expected behaviour? Longer: I know applications can expect the loopback interface to be available. However, strictly speaking, sendmail when invoked f