# Failed to start Postfix Mail Transport Agent

**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/failed-to-start-postfix-mail-transport-agent/2337
**Category:** Hardware Owners Support
**Created:** [November 7, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/failed-to-start-postfix-mail-transport-agent/2337 "2022-11-07T15:46:02Z")
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### Author: ![Sunil](https://discuss.freedombox.org/user_avatar/discuss.freedombox.org/sunil/32/8_2.png) [@Sunil](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/Sunil)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/failed-to-start-postfix-mail-transport-agent/2337/5 "2022-11-07T19:23:59Z")

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- In Apps → Postfix/Dovecot, the primary domain is set to ‘metani.eu’, correct?
- What does running the following two commands show?

```nohighlight
postconf | grep -e mydomain -e mydestination -e myhostname
postconf | grep -e tls_server_sni_maps -e smtpd_tls_chain_files

```

- Perhaps the problem is that system startup is slow and postfix fails to start within the timeout period. Try the following:

```nohighlight
$ mkdir /etc/systemd/system.conf.d
$ cat > /etc/systemd/system.conf.d/mysettings.conf
[Manager]
DefaultTimeoutStartSec=300s
$ systemctl daemon-reload

```

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