X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Axl nJctMSvLDx0dw5iCopKg7c4xVn6scBXzAqgmWSABsmcFBaMRNL8BlQyVVFWVQxyG tanRfq98s7Oc0j5TtcqkO1Hz52ZPq8vRXRugzZS+qAYtjvcDypnZgYe3HTx+a6yV v6H2z9/gWhvgYssQCKiGFibudN8moWXpJ1tNFv/4= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=1MciZHGtT aBIdR5AkzgWMbaaknw=; b=DgvLJUG79Hc/xUAZKPnK9XFuum1esA75BZ6WVKliL 5CR/DcK/Hd3jcAKaSA0FyXS2CnAZNvWWnhz7nulCmOMJxpu75OTNGue5Lm4l8CG/ tqGQc3lHxiqqX4yYT3mfS90gvO+st+bvwLXG96b7cu6tmJd54W3Bo70j75gIh0Bg aI= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=ips, greetings! X-HELO: eddie.starwolf.com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Greywolf Subject: Postfix+Cygwin: "mail system startup failed" Message-ID: <297441be-d2cc-a2cb-968a-b9c82329673b@starwolf.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:08:06 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Greetings! First the important stuff: [uname -a]: CYGWIN_NT-10.0 milliways 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 Cygwin [windows]: Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Build 16299.rs3_release_svc.180808-1748 [this is a work computer so getting updates for it may not be possible] Now the problem: I'm trying to get postfix up and running, and all I get is "fatal: mail system startup failed", with no further explanation; to wit, from 'postfix -v start': [since the IPs are all RFC-1918, I don't really care about their visibility...] postfix: name_mask: ipv4 postfix: name_mask: subnet postfix: inet_addr_local: configured 8 IPv4 addresses postfix: been_here: 192.168.238.0/24: 0 postfix: been_here: 192.168.40.0/22: 0 postfix: been_here: 169.254.0.0/16: 0 postfix: been_here: 169.254.0.0/16: 1 postfix: been_here: 169.254.0.0/16: 1 postfix: been_here: 192.168.44.0/22: 0 postfix: been_here: 169.254.0.0/16: 1 postfix: been_here: 127.0.0.0/8: 0 postfix: mynetworks: 192.168.238.0/24 192.168.40.0/22 169.254.0.0/16 192.168.44.0/22 127.0.0.0/8 postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system postfix/postfix-script: fatal: mail system startup failed [end output] Between starting and fatal, I expect that I would get a more detailed dump of what's gone wrong. Anyone have any insight? --*greywolf; -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple