Console Messages Org.PostFix.Master

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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.

Select

/var/log ▹ mail.log

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I had the exact same problem, launchd was respawning due to an error starting postfix.

I looked in /var/log/mail.log and saw the following error being repeated every time launchd respawned postfix:

postfix/master[xxxxx]: fatal: bind fe80::1 port 25: Can't assign requested address

I then found this article which solved my problem:

http://serverfault.com/questions/646284/postfix-not-working-on-macos-yosemite

Basically, /etc/postfix/main.cf contains the following line, which, for some reason, is not working with IPV6:

inet_interfaces = localhost

Changing the line to the IPV4 IP address for localhost fixes the problem. Simply change the entry to this:

inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1

FWIW, a believe a cleaner solution is to make sure that the following paramerter is set in your main.cf:

inet_protocols = ipv4

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Can you give any hints to the not so techie as how to edit that file? I found it, but am hesitant to mess around with Terminal...

Used Text Wrangler to edit file: inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1. Made a copy first and kept it in same directory with different name.

No more endless Console messages "fatal: bind fe80::1 port 25: Can't assign requested address" Seems to have done the trick!

In my case it was related to changing the hostname on my OS X Server, so I edited /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/main.cf searched for myhostname and replaced the old hostname with the new one, and it fixed the issue, serveradmin was able to connect to Notify Service.

Thanks cloudranger. This (your post) worked for me.

@cloudranger that worked perfectly, thanks.