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Following the installation instructions to the letter may result in a non-working DNS or mail system, adding notes on how to fix these.

.. code-block:: console
mkdir -p /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d
echo -e '[Resolve]\nDNS=8.8.8.8' > /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/mydns.conf
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This will later cause problems when OMV builds the network configuration via netplan.

The mentioned resolvectl dns <INTERFACE> <DNS_SERVER_IP> should do the same as creating a configuration file.
The temporary solution might not cause problems/failures later when the systemd network configuration is build via netplan.

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If you don't have a functioning mail system at this point, the |omv|
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The postfix service is stopped and disabled during the installation of the openmediavault package, so i don't know why postfix will cause the PHP mail command to block when the daemon is not running.

A login was never blocked when postfix was disabled (default after first installation) in the past and i can not reproduce it with the latest Debian13/OMV8 installation.

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@votdev votdev moved this to Review in progress in 8.x Dec 6, 2025
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Successfully tested on Debian 13 Netinst. Thx

@votdev votdev merged commit 3f9d02b into openmediavault:master Dec 7, 2025
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* DNS and mailer notes in on_debian.rst

* Update on_debian.rst with dhcp workaround, removed postfix workaround

* Small improvements

Signed-off-by: Volker Theile <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: Volker Theile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Volker Theile <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 3f9d02b)
Signed-off-by: Volker Theile <[email protected]>
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votdev commented Dec 8, 2025

This PR is related to #154.

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