In my case, I have a LAN of three computers. I run SMTP on one of them
using POSTFIX. Occasionally, I have to switch my SMTP in netscape to use
my ISP's SMTP server because some addresses reject email if they can not
reverse lookup the sender's IP address and match with the mail headers.
If I forget to set the SMTP server back to my local address, Netscape will
hang when I start it with my external net access down. My home page is
set to a local address (the address of my one-way cable modem actually).
In my case - it is definitely because Netscape "insists" upon looking up
the SMTP server address before it does ANYTHING else. That should at
least have a timeout or something. Hence my calling it a bug. It never
does give you an error - it just appears to freeze.
Tom Veldhouse
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Dr. Michael Weller wrote:
> Hmm, how did you start netscape? If you run it w/o network you are
> probably to display a local file. You should run it like:
>
> netscape file:<absolute path of some dir or file>
>
> Otherwise it will try to connect to your or Netscape's home page and fail
> resolving the DNS name (hmm, a proper DNS setup should still timeout after
> several minutes).
>
> I never used/noticed the start blank setup, in theory it should work, but
> I'd try it with file: nayway.
>
> Regards,
> Michael.
>
> --
>
> Michael Weller: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> or even [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you encounter an eowmob account on
> any machine in the net, it's very likely it's me.
>
