Kuraiken wrote:
>
> Greetings folks,
>
> Okay, I'm writing this in KMail. I like it but will have to move my mail over.
> I'd like to continue using Netscape mail for awhile at least...but I can't seem
> to get into the [mail] part of the Netscape preferences area without hanging
> netscape. Only a kill [procnum] would get rid of the process. What gives?
It's trying to resolve the name you entered for the mail server. If
you're not online at the time, it'll hang for (quite) a while. Set it
up while you're online. Same thing will happen when you enter a news
server name.
If you're online and it still hangs, check that /etc/resolv.conf is
setup properly. If you installed the caching-nameserver and bind
packages, you should change /etc/resolv.conf to have one "nameserver"
line that reads "nameserver 127.0.0.1".
Check from a command prompt that you can ping both name and number
addresses. Do a 'host <mailserver>' to see if it can resolve the name
to an IP number.
Somewhere in these tips lies the answer... :)
--
Steve Philp
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