[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#631781: initscripts: Fetchmail starts *before* MTS (postfix) - chokes on SMTP delivery at reboot

[S. Anthony Sequeira]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-13.1
Severity: normal

Jun 26 10:16:44 tachyon fetchmail[1449]: starting fetchmail 6.3.18
daemon
Jun 26 10:16:44 tachyon /usr/sbin/gpm[1367]: *** info [mice.c(2059)]:
Jun 26 10:16:44 tachyon /usr/sbin/gpm[1367]: Detected EXPS/2 protocol
mouse.
Jun 26 10:16:46 tachyon fetchmail[1449]: Connection errors for this
poll:#012name 0: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed:
Connection refused.
Jun 26 10:16:46 tachyon fetchmail[1449]: SMTP connect to localhost
failed
Jun 26 10:16:46 tachyon fetchmail[1449]: SMTP transaction error while
fetching from <changed>@<changed>@<changed> and delivering
to SMTP host localhost
Jun 26 10:16:46 tachyon fetchmail[1449]: Query status=10 (SMTP)

Shouldn't the MTA be a required start for fetchmail?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils             3.4              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                   2.17.2-9         Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysv-rc                 2.88dsf-13.1     System-V-like runlevel change mech
ii  sysvinit-utils          2.88dsf-13.1     System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs               1.41.12-4stable1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii  psmisc                  22.11-1          utilities that use the proc file s

initscripts suggests no packages.

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