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.
<br>The result of course was that other than for standard http the browser couldn't find the proxy.<br>Many thanks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2008 10:56 AM, Donovan Jones <<a href="mailto:hta.lists@gmail.com">
hta.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Jan 17, 2008 5:54 PM, Jeff Hunt <
<a href="mailto:jeffhunt90@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffhunt90@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Unable to find server is the standard message with advice about spelling it correctly etc. <br>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.
<br>I have never tried a traceroute. I'm at home at present (hence gmail) and will try that tomorrow.</blockquote></div><div><br>by "internet emails" i think you mean webmail, ie email accessed via a web browser, which on the client only requires http.
<br><br>It sounds like your browser (firefox?) is giving the "problem loading page/Server not found" message. There could be few reasons for this.<br><br>you could be having issues resolving the domain name<br>
<br>
try the command "host <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>" to see if you can resolve the name.<br><br>you could have a proxy or web filter of some description, check your browser settings or talk to the IT staff to find out.
<br><br>you could have some sort of connectivity problem or firewall issue, try "ping <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>" or "traceroute <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com
</a>" to see if you can get to gmail.
<br><br>hth<br><br>Donovan<br></div></div>
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