Control: tag -1 - moreinfo + confirmed 20.11.2025 09:38, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Interesting. I tested this configuration and it worked, but I don't claim I understand this relation well. Does `systemctl restart postfix` restarts your postfix@inbound instance too? If it does, how about `systemctl stop postfix` followed by `systemctl start postfix` ? I geuss the latter is the problem.
Ok, I see what's going on here. I did test `restart`, but ended up using `stop` and `start`. And the latter, indeed, does not start all enabled but not running secondary instances. Initially I tried to use `restart` here (which works) but ended up using separate stop+start, because sometimes you can't upgrade postfix while it is running (when internal protocol changes for example, which happened between 3.9 and 3.10). I probably can add WantedBy=postfix.service into [email protected], but this will make all instances inter-dependent (they already sort of are, due to PartOf=postfix.service). An alternative would be to check in preinst which instances are running, and (re)start them in postinst. So I don't yet know how to solve it properly. Thanks, /mjt
