[plug] Firefox/Thunderbird problem with Mandriva 2006 stillunresolved

[Gavin Chester]

   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: David Dartnall [mailto:darts at dialix.com.au]
   >Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:48
   >To: plug at plug.org.au; sales at ecosolutions.com.au
   >Subject: Re: [plug] Firefox/Thunderbird problem with Mandriva 2006
   >stillunresolved

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   >Thanks Gavin,
   >Yes both konqueror and kmail work fine, isp's and any other web
   >pages can be
   >loaded in Konqueror, and have successfully pinged the mail
   >server and web
   >addresses.
   >Don't know much about the firewall tho' - will disable that and report.
   >Not tonight tho'  !
   >
   >Dave D

As I said, I came late into this and was likely to offer only dumb ideas :-O

It's odd that it's only those two apps with probs and substitutes for them
see the web okay.  I guess I tend to blame firewalls as the first (and
easiest to kill) cause of possible problems with any sort of internal or
external network issue, so that is still worth trying - even though it now
looks entirely unlikely since ping works okay.  Otherwise the very good
suggestion of doing a packet trace with ethereal will tell what's happening
when you send a request for a page in Firefox or mail in thunderbird.  Good
luck.

Gavin