fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1
Issue
- Errors in maillog after applying postfix update and when
ipv6
is disabled. - After applying errata and updating postfix from 2.6.6-2.2 to 2.6.6-6 I'm seeing the following errors in
/var/log/maillog
Aug 26 10:04:00 hostname postfix/pickup[24754]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1
Aug 26 10:04:01 hostname postfix/master[1895]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/pickup pid 24754 exit status 1
Aug 26 10:04:01 hostname postfix/master[1895]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug 26 10:04:01 hostname aliasesdb: /usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1
- Unable to send outgoing email.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- postfix
- ipv6
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