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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
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>
> Sometime Today, Rajen Parekh assembled some asciibets to say:
>
> > I started Sendmail as it was not started at the system startup. After
> > that I tried 'telnet localhost 25' but the message I get is,
> > "Trying 127.0.0.1........
> > Unable to reach remote host.: Network is unreachable."
>
> Your lo interface probably hasn't started. Check your network
> configuration.
What is lo? What and how do I do for "network configuration"?
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> > BTW, when I tried to send a test mail from "root" to "rajen" the
> > mail got delivered even when I had stopped Sendmail. I thought mail
> > would be delivered only if Sendmail is running.
>
> if you use pine to send a mail, then pine will spawn a new sendmail
> session using sendmail -bs even if sendmail is not running.
>
> All I can say for now is check your network. Can you ping 127.0.0.1?
>
> Philip
No. It says"Network is unreachable
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