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Alerts don't go out

list Hermann-Josef Beckers
Tue, 8 Nov 2011 11:07:42 +0100
Message-Id: <user-53fdd4be073c@xymon.invalid>

xymon-bounces at xymon.com schrieb am 08.11.2011 10:57:56:

Hi Henrik,

thank you for the prompt response:
On 08-11-2011 10:17, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote:
send-mail: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found
for ::1
Not really a Xymon issue. Doing a google with that error message, the first hit is

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-
internet/436441-postfix-error-message.html

which begins with

    Noticed in logs messages (ESC on boot) that postfix is failing
    every time I boot. Only error I find in logs is:

    Apr 3 07:05:04 linux-7utx postfix[3788]: fatal: parameter
    inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1

and ends with

   i solved this by setting in /etc/postfix/main.cf

   inet_protocols = ipv4
   inet_interfaces = all


Does that help ?
setting inet_protocols from "all" to "ipv4" did the trick.
inet_interfaces is "localhost". But my postfix main.cf file had a modification date of 2010-09-29? 
Thanks again.

Yours
hjb