delivery temporarily suspended: connect to, localhost[10.11.12.13]:25: Connection timed out

[Derek Broughton]

Admin wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am using fetchmail to pop3 mail from gmail.  But when I receive email
> I find that fetchmail is using postfix to deliver the mail to the
> corresponding internal mailbox.  postfix responds with the following
> error and best I can tell the mail never ends up in my inbox.  Looks
> like localhost is considered 10.11.12.13.  The error message,
> /etc/hosts, and postconf -n are below.
> 
> 
> Here is the error message:
> 
> ---- snip ----
> 
> <username at localhost>: delivery temporarily suspended: connect to
>      localhost[10.11.12.13]:25: Connection timed out
> 
> 
> 
This suggests your trying to send mail to (literally) username at localhost 
instead of some valid user on your system.  It's "temporarily" suspended, 
because you're expected to either create a user named "username" or modify 
your /etc/aliases to ensure that "username"s mail goes to a valid user, then 
the next attempt to deliver will succeed.
-- 
derek