(uw-)imap question

[Ken Moffat]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

Perfect. Thanks; I'll let you know how it goes.


-- 
ken