Re: tinderbox mail

> From: Thomas Vogt <freebsdlists_at_bsdunix.ch>
> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:00:53 +0200
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
> 
> Am 16.04.2006 um 02:26 schrieb Andrew Thompson:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:05:00AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> >> Am 16.04.2006 um 01:17 schrieb Kevin Oberman:
> >>> The box was running 6.1-BETA from March 13 and Postfix 2.2.10 and  
> >>> uses
> >>> TLS. The one unusual thing about the system is that it receives mail
> >>> from our organizational server via IPv6 only.
> >>>
> >>> Smells a bit like a timing issue in the rc code, but I really am  
> >>> only
> >>> guessing.
> >>
> >> I can confirm this behavior also for 5.4 machines (postfix-2.2.5,1).
> >> On some of my server postfix does not start after a reboot on other
> >> it does start. All server are identical in software releases except
> >> hardware.
> >
> > Are you using the right startup method?
> 
> >
> > /usr/ports/UPDATING:
> >
> >  20060112:
> >   AFFECTS: users of mail/postfix, mail/postfix1, mail/postfix21,
> >                     mail/postfix-current
> >   AUTHOR: mnag_at_FreeBSD.org
> >
> >   Now all postfix ports use rcNG script to startup. If you have any  
> > file
> >   in etc/rc.d directory linked to sbin/postfix, please remove.
> >   Do not forget to add 'postfix_enable="YES"' in your rc.conf
> 
> 
> I don't use the methode mentioned in /ports/UPDATING 2006.
> 
> I use postfix 2.2.5 which was released in October 2005 and my system  
> is a FreeBSD 5.4-Release-pX (security branch). So I guess the new  
> startup methode doesn't affect my system because the rcNG script for  
> postfix was implemented later..or am I wrong?
> 
> I use:
> # we have postfix
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sendmail_flags="-bd"
> sendmail_pidfile="/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid"
> sendmail_procname="/usr/local/libexec/postfix/master"
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

I do use the new method of starting Postfix, so that is not the
problem. If it is also happening with an old Postfix and V5 (which does
not have the new rules for startup files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d), this
really seems like it might be a different issue.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman_at_es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634