Bug 2223998

Summary: Sendmail is restarted multiple times on boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eiríkur Hjartarson <eiki>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 38CC: anon.amish, eiki, jskarvad, olysonek-foss, redhat-bugzilla
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Description Eiríkur Hjartarson 2023-07-19 14:02:41 UTC 
On all my fedora-38 machines sendmail is started at least three times (stopped two times).  This is apparently due to the NetworkManager-dispatcher.service, which calls scripts in /usr/lib/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ especially 10-sendmail:

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#!/usr/bin/sh

case "$2" in
	up|down|vpn-up|vpn-down)
		/bin/systemctl --no-block try-restart sendmail.service || :
		;;
esac
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Maybe sendmail.service should depend on network.target or network-online.target?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure and activate sendmail (including "systemctl enable sendmail")
2. Reboot machine
3. Execute "journalctl -b0 -u sendmail -u sm-client" (and note multiple starts)
Actual Results:  
Output shows that sendmail/sm-client are started at least three times and stopped two times.

Expected Results:  
Sendmail/sm-client should only be started once.