<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">postfix is started during boot on my macOS system. This fails with:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Jan 10 18:00:08 mail postfix/master[488]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">Jan 10 18:00:10 mail /postfix-script[511]: fatal: mail system startup failed</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">but when I shortly thereafter launch it it just starts fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It seems something in the postfix/macOS combo makes this happen. Probably a weirdness in macOS if postfix starts when the system is still in some startup state (there have been more issues like this with macOS), so what I could use is a way to make postfix a bit more persistent in trying to start on a fatal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">startupitem.create yes</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">startupitem.start "${prefix}/sbin/${name} start"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">startupitem.stop "${prefix}/sbin/${name} stop"</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Given that postfix writes a pid file in </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">/opt/local/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid </span>would it be possible to use a startupitem.pidfile entry that triggers daemondo to try to relaunch when this happens? Note: postfix is started by a program running script which then starts the master process that writes the pid file.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">G</div></body></html>