Re: [Evolution] Evolution on OS X problem

[Jeff Self <jocknerd1 yahoo com>]

--- Emmanuel Tychon <etychon cisco com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 16:50, Jeff Self wrote:
>
> > host: 192.168.0.100 (the ip address of my linux
> box)
> > username: jeff
>
> Configuring such an IP address as the destination is
> a bad thing (tm).
> Should, for some reason, your IP address change and
> your stuff will not
> work anymore. You can use '127.0.0.1', which is the
> loopback, and that
> always works even if you do not have any physical
> network adapter.
>
> > Error while 'Opening store
> > imap://jeff 192 168 0 100/;use_lsub;check_all':
> > Host lookup failed: 192.168.0.100: host not found.
>
> Aha, it seems he tries to resolve the host name
> '192.168.0.100', which
> is already resolved. What if you use 'localhost'
> instead of
> '192.168.0.100'?
>
> localhost's ip is 127.0.0.1, so it may (or may not)
> solve your issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Emmanuel

I can't use localhost or 127.0.0.1 because the imap
server is a different machine. I'm trying to access
the imap server from my laptop. Mozilla on OS X has no
problem connecting to 192.168.0.100. I'll try tonight
to see if Mozilla under X Windows can connect.

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