Quoting Jim Sabatke
This is a weird one: (SuSE 9.0 Pro)
My server just started having this problem after a reboot. Only DHCP and Named were added, and DNS was not enabled.
On boot, Postfix, Amavis and Cyrus start without errors, but the mail is all queued and not delivered. The following is reported:
Aug 25 16:01:24 yoda postfix/lmtp[2249]: 33CAD657DE: to=
, orig_to= , relay=none, delay=-17805, status=deferred (connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused) I searched the net and found other references to this problem, but not a single solution, except to restart Amavis, Postfix and Cyrus IMAP.
The restarts do make the problem go away, and a "postqueue -f" flushes the queue (which had built up to 500 some messages by the time I did this).
I'd like to know if there is a more robust solution.
Sounds like Amavis didn't start properly. Make sure it starts before Postfix. HTH, Jeffrey