On 11/06/13 08:18, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 11.06.2013 09:00, schrieb Sebastian Arcus:
At the moment, if one of the interfaces specified with "listen=" in
dovecot.conf is not up when Dovecot is started,
then Dovecot just refuses to start. Is there an option to make Dovecot
start anyway, and just use the interface
when it becomes available? It is inconvenient to have Dovecot refuse to
start during boot because some interface is
temporarily not available.
try write some wrapper to the dovecot start script , checking your
interfaces and perhaps echo some stuff in dovecot.conf, or simply use -c
option for starting another dovecot.conf
but i would not recommand this practises
Thanks Robert. That's an interesting idea. It probably isn't really
worth the hassle as the whole issue is not quite that important. I was
merely wondering if there is a configuration option for Dovecot to
ignore missing interfaces.
Maybe coming from the other direction of the spectrum might also be a
good idea - something like a "nolisten" option - to prevent it from
listening on certain interfaces. That's the main reason I use the
"listen" option - to prevent Dovecot from ever listening on certain
interfaces, as an extra layer of protection in case the firewall ever
gets misconfigured.
