Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fetchmail not connecting to localhost

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.

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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.

Regards,

-- Raju