Fetchmail - connection to localhost: smpt failed: Connection refused

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:43:26AM -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
> So I installed fetchmail/postfix/dovecot
> 
> My mail was in /home/maildir on my last system but now its
> /data/wadesmart/maildir
> 
> Postfix:
> mydomain = wadesmart.com
> myhostname = mail.wadesmart.com
> mydestination = wadesmart.com, localhost.localdomain, localhsot
> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
> home_mailbox = data/wadesmart/maildir
> 
> When I start fetchmail I receive this error:
> fetchmail[6528] connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed:
> Connection refused.

Is postfix actually running?  I will assume the answer is no, and
suggest trying sudo /etc/init.d/postfix start and checking to see if
there are any error messages printed to the console or the system log
files.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove
anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say.
		-- Joel Spolski
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