From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Next time, check and see if any stub of outlook.exe is still running in
Task Manger.  I've seen that happen several times here...took about 15
seconds to finish whatever it was doing to totally go away.

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Glenn M.
"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:34:45 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>>news:miktk15i1rpkep4iq9k9268rkb9gap90f3{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>> The slow mail server was not overloaded after all.  The IT guy applied a
>>> hotfix to the copy of Windows the mail server was running, and the
>>> server is responsive once again.
>>
>>That sounds like a bug from a couple years ago, wonder what triggered it
>>now?
>>
>
> We've been installing a lot of new XP systems, I wonder if that is a
> correlation?  
>
>
> btw, another interesting Outlook quirk that the slow SMTP exposed.  I
> have a password on my .pst file, i.e., I need a password to open the
> file.  Normally, when I exit Outlook, the next time I open Outlook, I am
> prompted for the password.
>
> However, during this recent period of slow SMTP, there were times when I
> would exit Outlook, but not be prompted for the password when i opened
> Outlook the next time.  So far as the UI was concerned, Outlook had been
> closed; the task bar icon was gone, the outlook window was closed. Yet,
> when I open Outlook I am not prompted for a password.
>
> I'm wondering if something in the background is still waiting for a SMTP
> response, and prevent some invisible piece of Outlook from shutting
> down.  Then when I restart Outlook, since that invisible piece is still
> active, no password is prompted for.
>
> Could be an interesting way to bypass Outlook password "protection".
>
> /m

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