amavisd refuses to start in systemd

[cbertelli]

Context: Centos 7, 64 bits, PostgreSQL 9.2, fresh install

Mail not received Systemctl shows:

amavisd.service loaded failed failed amavisd-clean-quarantine.timer loaded active waiting amavisd-clean-tmp.timer loaded active waiting

when starting amavisd.service the answer is: Job for amavisd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status amavisd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

mag 04 11:58:48 myhost systemd[1]: amavisd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255 mag 04 11:58:48 myhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Amavisd-new is an interface between MTA and content checkers.. mag 04 11:58:48 myhost systemd[1]: Unit amavisd.service entered failed state. mag 04 11:58:48 myhost systemd[1]: amavisd.service failed. mag 04 11:58:49 myhost systemd[1]: amavisd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. mag 04 11:58:49 myhost systemd[1]: Stopped Amavisd-new is an interface between MTA and content checkers.. mag 04 11:58:49 myhost systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for amavisd.service mag 04 11:58:49 myhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Amavisd-new is an interface between MTA and content checkers.. mag 04 11:58:49 myhost systemd[1]: Unit amavisd.service entered failed state. mag 04 11:58:49 myhost systemd[1]: amavisd.service failed.

Amavisd was installed by modoboa, postfix was already installed.

Any suggestion?

[cbertelli]

Amavisd started after adding myhostname = myhost.my.domain (the fully qualified name of my machine), following this page: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=mail&f=6 in the comments of /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf myhostname is supposed to be optional.

[ionescu77]

Hi, ran into the same problem:

• my hostname does not use mail.my.domain syntax
• I had to generate the config from template
• modify the config and start run.py again

The lines are here in config_dict_template.py line 24:

        "name": "general",
        "values": [
            {
                "option": "hostname",
                "default": "mail.%(domain)s",
            }
        ]

Hmm, I thought about a simple fix, but a hack is not elegant. Cause we want to be consistent with the --domain parameter in modoba.py :-(

[ionescu77]

I will do it manual first.

• I will run it once in interactive and generate config ./run.py --stop-after-configfile-check --interactive <your domain>

• set the hostname acording to README

• then start again with ./run.py --debug

I'll see if I get any ideas.