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The user + pass must be a Drupal login pair, and that user must have CiviMail access permissions inside Drupal. Is this what you mean by ‘local CiviMail account’?

I was referring to the Linux user account, but thank you for pointing me to the Drupal user account.  It did not have CiviMail access or the same password, which have now been corrected.  Unfortunately, that has not affected the SOAP problem.

I am wondering if perhaps our SOAP install is broken in some way.  When I load http://localhost/modules/civicrm/extern/soap.php, I should get something, shouldn't I?  I would think an error or message of some sort at the very least.  But I get nothing at all, though the httpd access log shows a successful page load.  It seems like that might precede any authentication issues (and might explain why amavisd is freezing up, if it's waiting indefinitely for a SOAP response that never arrives).  Do you know any way to test if SOAP has a basic level of functionality?

Also, thanks for all your help with this.  I really appreciate it!

A-HA!

I finally found it!  (Yes, it's taken this long.)  For some obscure reason, it was the perl declaration in the main amavisd script.  It was set for "perl -T" to enable taint checking.  I turned off the taint check and it all goes through just fine!

And now you know... the rest of the story.