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