Re: [Evolution] Evolution on OS X problem

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 23:19, Jeff Self wrote:
> --- 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.

Maybe Mac OS X is lame in that passing an ip addres to gethostbyname
doesn't work like it does on every other Unix system (danw was saying
something like this earlier today). *shrug*

Jeff

PS Jeff Self's mailer is a good example of why people shouldn't be able
to configure their mail client to wrap at any width they choose.
Wrapping at 50 columns is EXTREMELY annoying to read.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com