softstart not working

[ben thielsen]

as per opendkim.conf(5), i've enabled softstart:

egrep -v '(^[[:space:]]*#|^[[:space:]]*$)' opendkim.conf
PidFile /run/opendkim/opendkim.pid
Syslog yes
SyslogSuccess yes
LogWhy yes
UMask 002
BaseDirectory /etc/opendkim
Socket inet:dkim-filter@localhost
Mode s
Quarantine no
RemoveOldSignatures no
SubDomains no
SoftStart yes
LDAPUseTLS yes
LDAPBindUser cn=opendkim,ou=exo,ou=services,ou=accounts,dc=example,dc=com
LDAPBindPassword xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
InternalHosts localhost, 192.0.2.1
Selector default
KeyFile /etc/opendkim/keys/default-private_key.pem
Domain ldap://dsa.example.com/ou=domains,ou=mail,dc=example,dc=com?host?sub?(host=$d)

but opendkim still fails to start if the ldap server is not available:

>/usr/sbin/opendkim -u opendkim -x /etc/opendkim/opendkim.conf
opendkim: /etc/opendkim/opendkim.conf: ldap://dsaexample.com/ou=domains,ou=mail,dc=example,dc=com?host?sub?(host=$d): dkimf_db_open(): Can't contact LDAP server

>echo $?
78

1] >lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04

2] >apt-cache policy opendkim
opendkim:
  Installed: 2.10.1-1
  Candidate: 2.10.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.10.1-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3] i expected opendkim to start even though the ldap server could not be contacted
4] it did not

[ben thielsen (btb-bitrate)]

upstream has indicated this is a bug:
http://lists.opendkim.org/archive/opendkim/users/2015/10/3579.html

i've submitted an upstream ticket:
https://sourceforge.net/p/opendkim/bugs/237/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[David Bürgin (glts)]

This is fixed in opendkim version 2.11.0~alpha-11 (Ubuntu 18.04).