[Dovecot] [OT] Apple Mail.app access to localhost imap when no network

[Alan Schmitt]

Le 22 nov. 04, à 14:30, Simon Waters a écrit :

>> I tried that, and it did not work. I guess Mail.app must be trying to
>> resolve some name (that is not localhost), and failing somehow.
>
> Stupid question, but does "localhost" resolve. Most systems it must 
> appear in
> /etc/hosts for it to resolve. You can always specify 127.0.0.1 as the 
> server
> to rule out name resolution.

Thanks for this suggestion. "localhost" does resolve (I tried to ping 
it, and it worked), and 127.0.0.1 does not change anything. So I guess 
my initial guess was wrong, and Mail must be trying to see if the 
network is up before even trying to log in.

Alan Schmitt
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