[wellylug] Internet email blocked

[Jeff Hunt]

For the information of people who helped and in case you encounter it again
in the hands of someone as dopey as me, the answer was simply that I had not
ticked the 'all protocols' box in Firefox under the 'manual proxy
configuration' option.
The result of course was that other than for standard http the browser
couldn't find the proxy.
Many thanks.

On Jan 18, 2008 10:56 AM, Donovan Jones <hta.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 17, 2008 5:54 PM, Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unable to find server is the standard message with advice about spelling
> > it correctly etc.
> > All other computers in the offices including the IT help and the other
> > single Linux machine are getting internet emails, as I was until I changed
> > machine. It is weird but what happens.
> > I have never tried a traceroute. I'm at home at present (hence gmail)
> > and will try that tomorrow.
>
>
> by "internet emails" i think you mean webmail, ie email accessed via a web
> browser, which on the client only requires http.
>
> It sounds like your browser (firefox?) is giving the "problem loading
> page/Server not found" message. There could be few reasons for this.
>
> you could be having issues resolving the domain name
>
> try the command "host gmail.com" to see if you can resolve the name.
>
> you could have a proxy or web filter of some description, check your
> browser settings or talk to the IT staff to find out.
>
> you could have some sort of connectivity problem or firewall issue, try
> "ping gmail.com" or "traceroute gmail.com" to see if you can get to gmail.
>
>
> hth
>
> Donovan
>
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