(uw-)imap question

[Ken Moffat]

Michael Hipp wrote:

>
> 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.
>

The imap server 'noisy' is here, and I connect from local machines to 
'noisy', but from the internet I have a static ip, which also has a 
name, which I have called blah.blah.com in these messages. So I want to 
connect to blah.blah.com from a remote mail client on a windows machine. 
The user wants outlook express, which works, but the different names 
blah.blah.com and noisy create a conflict with the certificate, which is 
assigned to the name 'noisy'. 

Hope that makes sense. I'm not feeling too coherent on this issue... :-)


-- 
ken