[ILUG-BOM] Fetchmail not connecting to localhost

[Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.]

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009, Raj Mathur wrote:

> On Friday 05 Jun 2009, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using Debian 5 w/ mutt, postfix, fetchmail, procmail. I have
> > discontinued my mtnl triband and taken a reliance broadband
> > netconnect connection.
> >
> > I've configured the stuff in the usual way but fetchmail is acting
> > up. These are the error messages.
> > -----------------
> > fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Network is
> > unreachable.
> 
> Your lo interface is not up for some reason.  Try a 
> /etc/init.d/networking restart (or the equivalent in your distribution).  
> ifconfig, ping 127.0.0.1 and route -n are your friends for determining 
> whether the interface and the local route is up or not.

/etc/init.d/networking restart just says networking restarted.

I get errors of network unreachable.

I'm not at that machine right now so I'l give you the output of the other
stuff tomorrow.

thanks,

Sharukh.
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