PostFix says it's started but never runs

[badgerbox76]

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.

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#

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#

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#

[topdog]

chown postfix.postfix -R /var/lib/postfix
/etc/init.d/postfix restart