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Postfix Cannot Start Due to "fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for ::1"

in Linux

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

postfix.service cannot start due to this error:

[root@<host> ~]# systemctl -l status postfix
● postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-05-20 15:47:01 EDT; 1h 24min ago
  Process: 70902 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/postfix stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 24454 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/postfix start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 24451 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/chroot-update (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 24249 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/aliasesdb (code=exited, status=75)
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