Hi,
I have a fedora38 server with postfix-3.7.9 (although this problem has
existed for a long time) that fails to start because I believe the server
has multiple interfaces.

ifconfig shows just the primary ethernet interface, but "ip addr" shows the
rest. There are five total interfaces in this multi-instance postfix config.

Here are the related boot messages from journalctl -xb0:
postfix[1360]: egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
postfix[1371]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.197
postfix[1374]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.198
postfix[1375]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.199
postfix[1376]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.200
postfix[1379]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for 130.250.NNN.201

Each of the IPs correspond to a different postfix instance.

After the system boots, I can start postfix successfully with just "service
postfix start".

Is it perhaps trying to start before networking is available? This would be
odd because the problem has persisted for quite a while, and I would have
thought something like that would have been fixed long ago.

Perhaps related to the difference between ifconfig and ip? Where is the
egrep coming from? I don't see it in the systemd file:

# ls -l /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.service
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jan 24  2023
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix.service ->
/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service
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