Re: Fetchmail problem

[Scott Yellig <syellig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Rev_Icon wrote:

> 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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Actually, ive never seen this happen going to localhost :)... my only
guess is that your loopback network interface is not setup correctly.

try running these commands as root:

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo

But, those should really be there already. hmm.. try running a traceroute
to localhost, and send me the results of that, as well as what the 'route'
command by itself prints out.

> 
> 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.
>