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[Matthew Flaschen]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 14:20 +0000, John wrote:
> 
>> However, every time I start Thunderbird, it reports "Could not connect 
>> to server localhost; the connection was refused". (When I used to use 
>> the identical configuration on a Windoze XP machine, it worked.)
> 
> This indicates Thunderbird is trying to connect to itself (e.g.
> localhost should be mapped to IP address 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback
> interface).  I am puzzled why the WebMail add in is trying to make a
> connection to localhost and not to a remote email service.

Because the extension is running a server on localhost, acting as a type
of proxy (HTTP->(IMAP or POP3/SMTP)).

Matt Flaschen