Postfix service fails to start on boot

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My YunoHost server

Hardware: VPS bought online / Old laptop or computer / Raspberry Pi (specify version, 0 to 4) at home / Internet Cube with VPN / Other ARM board / …
YunoHost version: 11.2.28 (stable)
I have access to my server : Through SSH | through the webadmin | direct access via keyboard / screen | …
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no
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Description of my issue

Hello all

This weekend I spent some time with the YNH Borg app and Borgbase. It worked as a backup but restoring from it I found difficult.

So I uninstalled the app and decided to go back to my backup system which is just a cron job using the ynh backup, it works great but I was looking for an offsite solution that was “easy”.

Anyway, I’m drifting away from the point. Also over the weekend, there was a ynh update to 11.2.28 (stable).

This morning I discovered that no email had come in so I did a quick diagnostics on the server and the diagnosis came back that ports 25 and 587 were closed (which they are not), but also that postfix service failed to start.

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In services I checked, and sure enough, postfix had stopped. I restarted it and it held on, all good, mail is now going in and out.

I thought that I’d just check to see if Postfix would restart with a reboot. I rebooted the server, checked services and again it had failed to start.

I’ve looked in the logs to see if there is anything to share, but I can’t find anything obvious unless, of course, I’m looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place which is highly likely!

If anyone can help with a fix I’d be grateful. I can restore as a full backup was done before the weekend, but I’m not entirely sure what I should be restoring. I’m guessing “System Configuration”?

Many thanks

Dj

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Share the postfix service logs!

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@tituspijean hello and thanks for the reply.

This is from:

Tools/Services/postfix

https://paste.yunohost.org/ebeyicuzoy

Many thanks
dj

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Do these log include a date and time when the server just booted up? If not, can you try triggering the issue again and share the logs ?

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@tituspijean I have just done another YNH update from 11.2.28 to 11.2.29. Once the update was completed I did another reboot, ran a fresh diagnosis and all is well again.

I’m not clear on what the YNH updates do, maybe I should, it all may be a coincidence of course. Who knows, but all is well again.

Many thanks

Dj