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to: Geo
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2005-10-15 10:20:26
subject: Re: overloaded email server behavior

From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:45:39 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:nqj0l1dgfpe2ttrd6aphphna7no8sl61c5{at}4ax.com...
>
>> 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.
>
>I check the task manager after shutting outlook down every single time, this
>is the one outlook bug that I'd like to see fixed a patch for. The stub will
>continue running even overnight and even after starting up outlook 2K and
>shutting it down again. I find it annoying because I shut outlook down at
>work, go home and find I have no new emails because the work machine is
>still grabbing them. Most folks probably wouldn't notice it because the
>emails are just there when they get to work the next day.

If I have interpreted the symptoms I see correctly, this is also a security
problem.  So long as the stub continues to run, a password-protected .pst
file is not.

 /m

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