Rick thanks for the message,

-I have not done any changes to the default nsswitch.conf. I checked and the entry hosts: files dns is there

-127.0.0.1 localhost entry is in the /etc/hosts file.

-ifconfig shows that the interface is up and I can successfully ping it by name ( ping localhost ).

What else can be wrong. I am totally lost here.

Alban

Rick Johnson wrote:

Alban Dani wrote:

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Hi ,

I recently installed Fedora Core 1.

Installed postfix on it and that is running fine.

I am trying to get dovecot to run and I have changed only the following line from the default dovecot.conf :

imap_listen = 127.0.0.1 since I'd like to install squirrelmail later on.

Now when I try to start dovecot I get "Starting Dovecot Imap: Fatal: Can't resolve address 127.0.0.1 : Name or service not known"

Does /etc/hosts still contain an entry for localhost?

Does /etc/nsswitch.conf still reference files for name resolution?

Is the interface lo active? (run ifconfig to find out)

-Rick

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