From: Mike '/m' 

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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