Revisited: localhost postfix/qmgr[414]: warning: connect to transport smtp-amavis: Connection refuse

HI AFP548 folks – I saw some threads on the above subject via google, and thought I’d see if I could get help here for the error:
localhost postfix/qmgr[414]: warning: connect to transport smtp-amavis: Connection refused

I saw that Joel has stated that either the master.cf file is misconfigured, or amavisd is not running –

Amavisd is running as far as i can tell – and the master.cf file hasn’t been edited in weeks – but these errors suddenly sprung up yesterday… A copy of my master.cf is below, in case any would like to look –

THANKS AN INCREDIBLE LOT IN ADVANCE – everyone’s in a panic w/o mail, as I’m sure you folks can imagine…

Darin See –

master.cf
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# ==========================================================================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ==========================================================================
smtp inet n – n – – smtpd
#smtps inet n – n – – smtpd
# -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#submission inet n – n – – smtpd
# -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#628 inet n – n – – qmqpd
pickup fifo n – n 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n – n – 0 cleanup
qmgr fifo n – n 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr fifo n – n 300 1 nqmgr
#tlsmgr fifo – – n 300 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix – – n – – trivial-rewrite
bounce unix – – n – 0 bounce
defer unix – – n – 0 bounce
flush unix n – n 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix – – n – – proxymap
smtp unix – – n – – smtp
relay unix – – n – – smtp
# -o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n – n – – showq
error unix – – n – – error
local unix – n n – – local
virtual unix – n n – – virtual
lmtp unix – – n – – lmtp
#
# Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
# pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it wants.
#
# maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
#
maildrop unix – n n – – pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
#
# The Cyrus deliver program has changed incompatibly, multiple times.
#
old-cyrus unix – n n – – pipe
flags=R user=cyrus argv=/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -m ${extension} ${user}
# Cyrus 2.1.5 (Amos Gouaux)
cyrus unix – n n – 10 pipe
user=cyrus argv=/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user}
uucp unix – n n – – pipe
flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender – $nexthop!rmail ($recipient)
ifmail unix – n n – – pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix – n n – – pipe
flags=Fq. user=foo argv=/usr/local/sbin/bsmtp -f $sender $nexthop $recipient