Jay at 2004-02-03 16:50 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Like many of you, as the expression goes, "I have to use a PC at work, >but I GET to use a Mac at home." I regularly check my company email from >home or on the road on my iBook. My email account in Emailer's "Internet >Account Entry" window has been [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the Network >Administrator has informed me (correctly) that I can't use that POP >server address anymore because the company has moved the mail service to >a new server which, once the name is "broadcasted", will be >"email.CompanyName.com" rather than the traditional "mail.". Until they >"broadcast" the new name, I am told that I need to use an I.P. address >(for example 12.3.456.789) in Emailer's "Internet Account Entry" window. >Of course, Emailer won't work that way. I was told that, on a PC, I could
Of course it will. Just put the IP address where you would put the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the mail server. >edit the "Hosts" file to tell it to translate the I.P. address to >"email.CompanyName.com", but I can't find any such tool in Mac OS X >10.2.6. Nope, the hosts file does the exact opposite. It was invented before DNS (I'm taking some poetic liberty here) so that people wouldn't have to type in IP addresses. What is does is take a hostname (or FQDN) and give back an IP address, exactly what DNS does. It was on Unix long before it got to Windoze, so of course MacOS X has it; but, you should use NetInfo if you really must. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
