On Fri, 05 Jun 2009, Dinesh Shah (??????????????? ?????????/??????????????? ?????????) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. > <[email protected]>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. > > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > > ----------------- > > > > also: > > --------------------- > > shar...@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. > > > Just start/restart your postfix. Also look if postfix fails to start in > syslog/maillog for error. This is what I get on bootup. Starting Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix: fatal could not find any active network interfaces. Failed! thanks, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

