Note that this relates to a WinXP SP2 installation of Squirrelmail. Having used Squirrelmail for a couple of years, I have had to re-install it because of a (unrelated to SM) system crash. I started with a completely clean Windows XP installation, so there is not too much on the machine so far. I set up the SM configuration file using "localhost" as the server machine name. My IMAP server (Mercury32) is running on the same machine as SM. Unfortunately, SM wouldn't work and I received a message saying that a connection could not be made to the host. It wouldn't work when using 127.0.0.1 as the server name either. I then changed the server name in the SM configuration file to its LAN IP address, 192.168.0.101. SM then started to work. Being rather curious about this, I tried to telnet to the IMAP port on the local machine (telnet localhost 143 or telnet 127.0.0.1 143) and no connection was achieved. The response was "Connecting To Localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port 143: Connect failed". This is the same response as is received when locally telneting to port 143 on another machine that isn't running an IMAP daemon. Consistent with what I had observed with SM, if I telnet to port 143 (on the SM/IMAP machine) using its LAN IP address (192.168.0.101) or its Internet hostname, the IMAP server responds correctly. I can telnet to external hosts from the SM/IMAP machine and I can also telnet to the Apache server on the same machine using "localhost", i.e. telnet localhost 80, and Apache responds. Mercury is also running a SMTP server, but that won't respond when using "localhost" in the telnet command. However, its normal operation as a SMTP server is fine (connection being made using its LAN address). I have checked the Hosts file, and that is correct. It only contains localhost as 127.0.0.1. I have checked the permitted connections within the Mercury32 IMAP server configuration and the set-up seems to be fine (opening up the server to accept anything doesn't help). A (perhaps) side effect of the above behaviour is that when I use "localhost" in the SM configuration file, external connections (over my LAN), trying to connect to SM, are not successful. However, consistent with the above behaviour, using the LAN address in the SM configuration file works fine. I had wondered whether this might be a Windows Firewall problem (even though most of the behaviour noted above is within the same machine). However, turning the firewall off makse no difference. Any help to solve this "mystery" would be much appreciated. Thank you GordonM -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problem-using-%22localhost%22-as-IMAP-server-name-tp14540785p14540785.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
