Hi, Thanks for the tip. It solved the problem for me, too. But I checked my HOSTS file and 127.0.0.1 localhost is there along with another entry ::1 localhost. As I have no idea what I'm doing or how these things work, could you please tell me if I should I be modifying the HOSTS file in some way, or just leave well enough alone with the replacement in Thunderbird? Thanks again for the help.
On Mar 11, 4:40 pm, Webmail Author <[email protected]> wrote: > Replace localhost with 127.0.0.1 > > On Mar 11, 6:07 pm, Abaconian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, As of yesterday my Thunderbird has stopped working, giving the > > message 'Failed to connect to server localhost' I've tried > > reinstalling everything and still get the same message. I'm running > > Vista Home Edition, Thunderbird 2.0.0.19, Webmail 1.3.2, Webmail- > > Hotmail 1.2.2. Kaspersky Antivirus and Windows Firewall. Apart from > > the usual antivirus updates, the only thing I can see out of the > > ordinary is that Windows Defender cleaned out this file C:\Windows > > \system32\drivers\etc\hosts yesterday. Any suggestions please?- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
