Re: [exim] exim 4.96 stopping because postfix is starting?

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Author: Andrew C Aitchison
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To: exim-users, Johnnie W Adams
Subject: Re: [exim] exim 4.96 stopping because postfix is starting?
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022, Johnnie W Adams via Exim-users wrote:

> Hi, folks,
>
>     Twice recently, my outbound SMTP server has stopped working for no
> apparent reason. There's nothing in the logs but this:

>
> Dec 19 10:02:22 mailserver2 systemd: Starting Postfix Mail Transport
> Agent...
>
> Dec 19 10:02:22 mailserver2 systemd: Stopping Exim Mail Transport Agent...
>
> Dec 19 10:02:22 mailserver2 systemd: Stopped Exim Mail Transport Agent.
>
> Dec 19 10:02:22 mailserver2 systemd: Started Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
>
>     This is new behavior. Postfix had (I thought) been happily passing
> mail off to Exim until just recently. What's up?


Exim knows nothing about systemd.

What OS is this ?
My guess is that systemd "knows" that you can't have two mail servers
running at the same time.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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