Re: localhost access

["Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mail proxy - all 3 use Symantec Corporate AV, but I could disable it
temporarily and give it a whirl
ports - they are nonstandard ports, which I checked.  And checked.  And
checked.  And . . .

He won't be back in the office until Tuesday morning.  He's always out
selling stuff!  :)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:00 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] localhost access
>
> 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
>
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