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

[Sean Porter]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 3:20 AM, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
> I agree with all this, and here the server is "localhost", which is 
> perfectly accessible (at least by telnet). I guess Mail.app developers 
> have not considered this possibility, so they just test for network 
> connectivity instead of access to the server.
>

Undoubtedly there's some CFNetwork function that Mail checks to see if 
the network is up and mailboxes can be 'online.'  This is desired 
behavior for 99.99999999999% of OS X laptop users. ;^)

You could try using Thunderbird, as (like Firefox and Safari) this is 
nearly a note-by-note clone of Mail.app in terms of UI.

Sean