<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jon,<div><br></div><div>Looks like Postfix is trying to access amavis to do spam checking. As far as I remember postfix forwards any messages to amavis using a local network connection and you have to have both services running for any messages to be processed successfully, otherwise they will get stuck in postfix.</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 10/04/2012, at 16:31 , Jon Miller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">I’m
getting the following messages in my mail log, although I cannot find where it
is referencing.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--><o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><o:p><font face="Courier New"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">Apr
10 15:10:44 mmtlnx postfix/qmgr[975]: warning: connect to transport smtp-amavis:
Connection refused<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">Apr
10 15:11:44 mmtlnx postfix/qmgr[975]: warning: connect to transport smtp-amavis:
Connection refused<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><o:p><font face="Courier New"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">I had
tried to install amavis on the server and since I couldn’t get it to work I went
back to the previous configuration.<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><o:p><font face="Courier New"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">I’ve
looked at the following files and there is no indication that the postfix is
trying to use amavis.<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><o:p><font face="Courier New"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">The
only files I configured was /etc/postfix/main.cf and
master.cf<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">I’ve
turned off amavis via chkconfig amavis off<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><o:p><font face="Courier New"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">Just
wondering where is this warning coming from?<o:p></o:p></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><o:p><font face="Courier New"> </font></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; "><font face="Courier New">Thanks<o:p></o:p></font></div></font></div>
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