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[Karl J=?ISO-8859-1?B?5A==?=rnhammer]

On 2006-07-08 14.15 Julio Biason wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 13:59 +0200, Karl J=?ISO-8859-1?B?5A==?=rnhammer
> wrote:
>>  Anyway when everything is filled in as prompted leaving the security
>> option as 'never' Evolution returns the message Error while fetching
>> mail: Host lookup failed (followed by the address of my server) and
>> the line  'Temporary failure in name resolution'. In Firefox I
>> get ........  ........ Could not be found. Please check the name ant
>> try again.
> 
> This (and your problem with Firefox) seems to be DNS related. Take a
> look on "System" -> "Administration" -> "Networking". There is a "DNS"
> tab. Check the values.

When I try to do that nothing happens, the round cursor/loading thingy
rotates for a minute or so  then nothing!
> 
> I don't know how you connect to the internet so I can't really point if
> that will fix your problem: if you are using a dynamic IP (using DHCP),
> it should be correctly set by the system.

I have an ADSL connection running at 0.5MB through a Dlink cable router.
Thanks
KJ