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in reply to Re^4: Net::SMTP - Connection to local MTA refused
in thread Net::SMTP - Connection to local MTA refused

Turn on verbose logging in Postfix, or try some of the other things on this page.

Your logs show pretty clearly that it's postfix closing the connection (assuming apparmor and similar aren't doing it), so this should unearth something