From: Mike '/m' 


Man, that problem drives me crazy at work.  Our email server is overloaded
and will be upgraded in a couple of weeks (40% annual growth in a company
creates interesting problems...).  Until then, I am greeted my POP3 and
SMTP timeouts.  The SMTP timeouts are particularly egregious with Outlook. 
Outlook says the message is sent, but the message was never accepted by the
email server.

One of the Software Engineers on my team sent me an email that he was
taking a two days vacation.  Outlook said it was sent fine, but the email
server never accepted it.   Needless, I became *very* concerned
when he didn't show up for two days....

But back to your point, my Outlook often "hangs" whilst waiting
for the slow server to respond.  It's a real pain in the neck when I want
to leave at the end of the day, but I cannot because I have to wait for
Windows and Outlook to decide that Outlook is not terminating nicely this
time, and I have to force a power-down in order to leave for the day.

No joy the next morning when I turn the PC on again....

 /m



On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:08:48 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>If I start up Outlook 2000, and while it's checking my 10 email accounts I end
the outlook program by closing it, a process called "outlook" in
taskmanager is still active and will remain active until killed.
>
>If it's not a zombie process, what do you call it?
>
>Geo.
>  "Rich"  wrote in message news:4335dc85{at}w3.nls.net...
>     Zombies are not what I meant.  Zombies as they exist in unix do not exist
in Windows.

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