Re: 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