On Friday 04 November 2011 10:24:54 Wietse Venema wrote: > David Southwell: > > On Friday 04 November 2011 09:24:40 Kris Deugau wrote: > > > David Southwell wrote: > > > > But still got the following errors when the lines in main.cf were > > > > unchecked: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Nov 4 07:37:50 dns1 postfix/smtpd[26676]: warning: connect to > > > > private/policyd-spf: Connection refused > > > > > > You need to find out why your policy server isn't responding to > > > Postfix. > > > > > > Since it's set up for a Unix socket, you likely either have a > > > permissions issue (eg, running as the wrong user) or the policy server > > > isn't running. > > > > > > -kgd > > > > Sounds sensible. Any advice on how I can check that out? > > You can use lsof or netstat to find out what is listening. > > On FreeBSD (which I recall is the platform) the error "Connection > refused" means that no process is listening on the port. > > Hence, my suspicion about editing the wrong file or saving the file > at the wrong time. > > Wietse
Make sense but I do not thinbk that is problem. I have been most careful about that bit. Pardon my ignorance but where is port configured and how is the process started? Thanks for your help David
