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. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
