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Bug 1119814

Summary:	dovecot needs network-online.target instead of network.target
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Corinna Vinschen <vinschen>
Component:	dovecot	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	20	CC:	janfrode, mhlavink, psimerda
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Fixed In Version:	dovecot-2.2.13-2.fc20	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-02-05 15:36:57 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1119787

Description Corinna Vinschen 2014-07-15 15:04:00 UTC

Description of problem: dovecot starts before network initialization is complete

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
dovecot-2.2.13-1.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible: Configure dovecot to listen on explicit static interface address.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot system

Actual results: dovecot generates an error indicating its interface does not exist.

Expected results: dovecot starts

Additional info: This is a generic problem with all services binding to explicit interface addresses and depending on network.target only.  network.target does not make sure that all statically configured interfaces are up.  Onle network-online.target does that.  Therefore the solution for all configurable services not supporting IP_FREEBIND is to change the dependency
from network.target to a depedency on network-online.target:

  Requires=network-online.target
  After=network-online.target

Other network services are affected as well so this bug  report is only one in a row.