Fetchmail problem

["Rev_Icon" <Rev_Icon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to get email working on my system, but I'm getting the following
error.

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root (~)# fetchmail
fetchmail: 1 message at eagle@mail.tds.net.
reading message 1 of 1 (6204 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
failed: No route to host
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.tds.net
root (~)#
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I'm sure everyone has gotten this error before, but I'm not sure what causes
it.   I am able to send messages fine, but obviously receiving them doesn't
work.   I checked out the fetchmail doc but i didn't find anything that
looked like it would solve this problem.