David Southwell:
> > > > > Nov 4 07:37:50 dns1 postfix/smtpd[26676]: warning: connect to
> > > > > private/policyd-spf: Connection refused
> >
> > You can use lsof or netstat to find out what is listening.
Have you tried that already?
> > 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.
> Pardon my ignorance but where is port configured and how is the process
> started?
The port (/some/where/private/policyd-spf) is configured in master.cf.
You use lsof or netstat to verify that something is listening on
that port.
If nothing is listening, then you made an error configuring master.cf.
Wietse