Hi Christian, everyone,
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Christian Kruggel wrote:
> Hi Juergen!
>
> A few days ago you answered my question concerning javaīs
> mailto-protocol and the exception produced by the appended source:
>
> java.net.UnknownHostException: mailhost
>
> Juergen> Sounds like a setup problem. Can you ping mailhost?
>
> No. Another nice GUY suggested to mention the localhost as
> mailhost in /etc/hosts. Appending the line "127.0.0.1 mailhost"
> I was able to ping the mailhost. But that seems just to shift
> the problem. Executing the program now leads to a
> ConnectionRefused-Exception ...
Er, you're supposed to replace "mailhost" with the name of your actual
SMTP server. You shouldn't be messing around with /etc/hosts.
You can get your SMTP server from your browser settings or email client
settings.
. . . Sean.
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