Re: localhost access

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Crosby wrote:
> I changed 3 salesreps laptops today from Outlook Express to
> Thunderbird for email.  Their current email setup uses 'localhost'
> for both incoming and outgoing server.

Sounds like there is a mail proxy in place.  Perhaps for virus scanning?

> 2 of the 3 worked fine, the 3rd doesn't.  In Thunderbird, it says it
> cannot access localhost, but in OE there's no problem.  On a lark, I
> changed from localhost to 127.0.0.1 but that didn't help.

Did you check the port?  For a local mail proxy, you might need to override the port to something non-standard.

> Since OE worked I assume it's not a firewall thing.  I never thought
> to look at the hosts file, but, again, if OE works, then I would
> think Thunderbird would.

Firewalls generally won't try (or even be able) to block localhost.  'localhost' operates at a different level in the TCP stack (IIRC).

david