Fetchmail - connection to localhost: smpt failed: Connection refused

[Derek Broughton]

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.

# telnet ip6-localhost 25
# telnet localhost 25

At a guess, I'd say you haven't configured postfix to work on IPv6, and 
fetchmail _is_.
-- 
derek