Re: [Evolution] Evolution on OS X problem

[Jeff Self <jocknerd1 yahoo com>]

--- Not Zed <notzed ximian com> wrote:
> 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.

Well I setup Mozilla under X Windows to connect to my
imap server and it worked just like Mozilla under OS
X. So there's some kind of problem with Evolution
under X Windows on OS X. I've got Evolution 1.0.7
compiled.


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