(uw-)imap question

[Michael Hipp]

Ken Moffat wrote:

> 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... :-)

On that remote windows machine, define noisy in the hosts file as that static 
ip and tell outlook express to connect to noisy for imap. That way the server 
it is told to connect to and the name on the certificate will match.

On NT-kernel windows machines, the hosts file is 
c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts. Don't remember on 9xME.

Simple workaround.

Michael