Re: [Evolution] Evolution on OS X problem

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 03:22, Jeff Self wrote:
> --- 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'?

This isn't the problem, getshostbyname works fine for ip addresses.

> > 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.

Well if everything else resolves addresses, I dont see why evolution
wouldn't.  Unless there are some libc problems with the interfaces we're
using.