From: Mike '/m' 

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:04:53 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:lv80l1hl1ohepekneahts6psk7o7fimh0i{at}4ax.com...
>
>> 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.
>
>It's possible but I would think you would see an "outlook"
process still
>showing in task manager.

Probably true.

However, so long as the UI does not indicate the presence of that process,
(how often does a user look in the task manager to see if the email client
has fully shut down?), it's yet another symptom of the sloppy programming
that I am seeing in this recent version of MS Office compared to the MS
Office '97 that I "upgraded" from.

 /m

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