Bug#739371: postfix: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No address associated with hostname

2014-03-22 Thread Bill Wohler
Robert Munyer 4539632...@munyer.com wrote: In the installed package, its name is /etc/init.d/postfix. Thanks! I applied the patch and can confirm that the warning has gone away. In addition, the connect from unknown[::1] message now says connect from localhost[::1]. -- Bill Wohler

Bug#739371: postfix: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No address associated with hostname

2014-03-16 Thread Robert Munyer
That message is caused by a bug in Debian's Postfix package, but the bug didn't just appear last month; it's been there at least since 2012. Probably something that changed on your system last month caused fetchmail to start using the IPv6 loopback address instead of the IPv4 loopback address.

Bug#739371: postfix: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No address associated with hostname

2014-03-16 Thread Bill Wohler
Robert Munyer 4539632...@munyer.com wrote: You can fix the bug with the patch provided by Tanguy Ortolo in bug report #723915, Simple patch, if I could find the file to apply it to :-). I take it the init.d file (strange name for a file) is in the source package. Do you know where I might find

Bug#739371: postfix: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No address associated with hostname

2014-03-16 Thread Robert Munyer
Simple patch, if I could find the file to apply it to :-). I take it the init.d file (strange name for a file) is in the source package. Do you know where I might find it outside of the source package, or is the behavior in this file essentially compiled into the binary? In the installed

Bug#739371: postfix: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No address associated with hostname

2014-02-17 Thread Bill Wohler
Package: postfix Version: 2.9.6-2 Severity: normal Upon my last weekly wheezy upgrade on Saturday, 2/15, I started getting the following warning in my log file when receiving emails (via fetchmail): Feb 17 14:30:14 olgas postfix/smtpd[29545]: warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to