[ILUG-BOM] Fetchmail not connecting to localhost

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. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed -----------------

also: --------------------- sharukh@opium:~$ telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable ---------------------

------------------- lsof -i:25

gives no output -------------------

please help, I have googled but am a bit lost.

Thanks,

Sharukh