> I've always used "poll <remote_network>.net proto pop3 user
> <user_name> password <user_password>" in .fetchmailrc with plenty
> success. The ISP recently changed the remote mail server to a new
> location within their network, so I'm using mail.<remote_network>.net
> in .fetchmailrc, but I'm not able to make any connection with the mail
> server to download my e-mail no matter what I've tried. The following
> error depicts what type of error I'm getting with fetchmail:
> 
>      fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.<remote_network>.net
>      failed: local error: Network is unreachable
>      fetchmail: Query status=2
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

I would guess that they've put their POP server behind a firewall for
"security" reasons (I don't think much of that kind of security).
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