freebsd 8.1 release mail_version = 2.8-20101108
no chroot /etc/hosts contains this and the usual non-local host lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost postgrey params: postgrey_flags=${postgrey_flags:-"--pidfile=${postgrey_pidfile} \ --inet=10023 \ -d \ --user=postgrey \ --group=postgrey \ --dbdir=/var/db/postgrey"} Nov 26 16:06:01 mgw1 postgrey[92832]: Process Backgrounded Nov 26 16:06:01 mgw1 postgrey[92832]: 2010/11/26-16:06:01 postgrey (type Net::Server::Multiplex) starting! pid(92832) Nov 26 16:06:01 mgw1 postgrey[92832]: Using default listen value of 128 Nov 26 16:06:01 mgw1 postgrey[92832]: Binding to TCP port 10023 on host localhost Nov 26 16:06:01 mgw1 postgrey[92832]: Setting gid to "225 225" Nov 26 16:06:01 mgw1 postgrey[92832]: Setting uid to "225" dirs: ll /var/db/postgrey/ total 282 -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 8192 Nov 26 16:06 __db.001 -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 270336 Nov 26 16:06 __db.002 -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 98304 Nov 26 16:06 __db.003 -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 16384 Nov 26 16:06 __db.004 -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 67040 Nov 26 16:06 log.0000000001 -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 32768 Nov 26 16:06 postgrey.db -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 0 Nov 26 15:55 postgrey.lock -rw------- 1 postgrey postgrey - 32768 Nov 26 16:06 postgrey_clients.db sockstat -4 | egrep 10023 postgrey perl5.10.1 92832 5 tcp4 127.0.0.1:10023 *:* main.cf: check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10023, but postfix ain't happy: Nov 26 15:23:02 mgw1 postfix/smtpd[92264]: fatal: host/service localhost/10023 not found: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Nov 26 15:23:03 mgw1 postfix/master[87697]: warning: process /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 92264 exit status 1 Nov 26 15:23:03 mgw1 postfix/master[87697]: warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling thanks Len