Incoming email server being set to 127.0.0.1?

edwardcasbon1 · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:00

Can anyone tell me why the incoming email server address is being changed to 127.0.0.1 everytime i reboot?

I change it to what it should be, i.e pop3.ukgateway.net, but when i restart it goes back to 127.0.0.1

I think its got something to do with Norton Anti Virus doesn't it?

How can i keep it so that the email incoming server stays as it should be, with the gateway address?

Cheers in advance,

Edward

$c8t@ · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:08

i'm not sure about norton but mcaffee "spam filter" has this problem...

disabling usually does the trick...

Energize · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:17

Norton is evil, get rid of it.

edwardcasbon1 · 7 Jul 2006 at 18:33

its my uncles rather than mine.

Ricochet J · 7 Jul 2006 at 20:30

If i'm not mistaken that IP is for loopback testing.
It tests the TCP/IP stack.

stoofa · 7 Jul 2006 at 22:42

I think you are trying to fix a problem that doesn't actually exist.
NAV is taking the e-mail and scanning it before allowing it to appear in your inbox.
If mail goes straight into your inbox you could open it before the scanner has had a chance to clean any viruses from the message.

So with your computer running NAV is logging in and collecting your e-mail and scanning it for viruses.
Once it is sure the message is clean it "locally delivers" it - hence the local incoming mail IP address.

Oh and NAV will do the job extremely well.
I've used NAV products since the year dot (the last brand I used before NAV was Dr. Solomon's and that was when virus updates used to arrive quarterly and on floppy disk).
You'll be told that NAV uses so much more memory than everything else out there (20mb compared to what nod32krn.exe uses on my fiancee's machine which is...oh look, 19,808k).
Then you'll be told your whole machine will slow down with NAV running - I've done the benchmarking, it's rubbish, but you'll be told it anyway.

edwardcasbon1 · 8 Jul 2006 at 09:02

But the email doesnt come through with 127.0.0.1 in the incoming mail server box, it has to be changed to ukgateway.net to receive email.

Any ideas why?

Puddles · 8 Jul 2006 at 17:05

You may want to try disabling the email protection in norton. After which, put the settings back into your mail client and test, then try re-enabling the email protection. It seems Norton may have forgotten where your mail server is. You can also try googling or searching symantec's very comprihensive knowledgebase.

stoofa said:
Oh and NAV will do the job extremely well.
I've used NAV products since the year dot (the last brand I used before NAV was Dr. Solomon's and that was when virus updates used to arrive quarterly and on floppy disk).
You'll be told that NAV uses so much more memory than everything else out there (20mb compared to what nod32krn.exe uses on my fiancee's machine which is...oh look, 19,808k).
Then you'll be told your whole machine will slow down with NAV running - I've done the benchmarking, it's rubbish, but you'll be told it anyway.

I must have missed the post that critisised your beloved antivirus solution. If you think it works so well, why does anyone elses opinion matter? IMHO, its not the memory usage, or the performance hit, just its inability to protect against viruses/spyware.