On Sat, December 29, 2007 1:43 pm, GordonM wrote: > > 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. This is probably a setting in your imap server, and has little to do with SM (other than the symptoms). I'm not familiar with Mercury, but try to find a way to tell it to listen on 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' as well as your published net address and then SM should work just fine. HTH, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
