(uw-)imap question

[Michael Hipp]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>
>> A workaround is to just add the local hostname to the hosts file in 
>> the client computer. So when you tell it to connect to noisy it 
>> connects to the public IP of blah.blah.com and doesn't know any better.
>>
>> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> So, I should assign the ip of blah.blah.com to the local name "noisy"?
> Currently "noisy" is 192.168.1.100 in the local /etc/hosts files.

The client machine is external, right? Meaning it is connecting to noisy from 
across the public Internet? If so, having noisy defined in /etc/hosts as a 
private address (like 192.168.x.y) does nothing.

So make an entry in /etc/hosts like:

66.77.88.99   noisy

Where 66.77.88.99 is the actual public IP that gets you to blah.blah.com which 
is really noisy.

Michael