On 9/1/08, Bob Parks wrote: > >Full internet access the whole time. Ethernet to a T1 line. Web >browsing works, fetching email works. > >Bob
Ok, Rene gave me a clue. I have my send and receive set to do one account at a time. In the schedulings dialog, the SMTP has all options checked.. immediately when queued, when retrieving and before quitting. With the VPN down, I tried sending a message on a VPN account. After a while it timed out and I got a no server error message. Just like it should. I then tried sending an email from a different account. It went into the out tray, but there was no attempt to send it (based on the status bar on the lower corner of the recent mail window.) Tried again with a different, non VPN account. Again, right into the Out Tray, no error message, nothing showed up on the status bar. If I go into the Out tray, click on either message to a non VPN account, click send.. nothing. If I click on the message to the VPN account it tries again, and of course times out. In all cases, I had full internet access, and access to the non VPN mail servers. I could retrieve mail just fine, and it works fine on the scheduled retrieve connections. If I delete the stalled VPN message from the Out Tray, the other two messages send immediately. If I go check "send simultaneously" in Mail Schedulings, then it works fine, and the stalled VPN message does not block other accounts. There are times when I am traveling that I have slow, high latency net connections, and things really slow down with multiple simultaneous connections, so I prefer to do one account at a time. BUT, I think it is still wrong to block all accounts when one account has a sending error, and its still wrong to not notify the user when the program cannot do an action that was specifically requested i.e. send an email when the user says to send it. Bob ************************************************************************* * Bob Parks In theory, there is no difference * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] between theory and practice. * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * http://www.kidsource.com/ In practice, this is rarely the case. * *************************************************************************
