I have already run apt-get --purge remove postfix and reinstalled it but I am still getting this error below. I am not sure where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated. Code: root@box1:/etc/init.d# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused root@box1:/etc/init.d# Code: root@box1:/etc/init.d# ./postfix start * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ ok ] root@box1:/etc/init.d# ./postfix start * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix [ ok ] root@box1:/etc/init.d# ./postfix check postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/lib/postfix/./master.lock postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/lib/postfix/./smtpd_scache.db postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by postfix: /var/lib/postfix/./smtp_scache.db root@box1:/etc/init.d# Code: root@box1:/var/lib/postfix# ls -l total 24 -rw------- 1 fetchmail postfix 17 Mar 30 08:45 master.lock -rw------- 1 postfix postfix 1024 Oct 5 2008 prng_exch -rw------- 1 fetchmail postfix 8192 Oct 5 2008 smtp_scache.db -rw------- 1 fetchmail postfix 8192 Oct 5 2008 smtpd_scache.db root@box1:/var/lib/postfix#