I agree. Unfortunately it is a company policy for "security" purposes that each workstation use a screen saver that is set to activate after no more than 10 minutes of inactivity. My best bet is to use Tom's suggestion. The down side to this situation is that I have found that factory people sneak into my office at night and take a snooze or whatever. I have never seen indication of any mischievous activity but it is possible if my computer, which contains the master database and programs, were left open to "attack".
Ultimately, if this is an issue with R:Mail, it would be ideal if it could be fixed -- or whatever the appropriate term to use is. R:Mail offers a wonderful world of opportunity and it certainly is a great utility. Thanks for all input. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis McGrath [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Mail question > > > > > > I never use screen savers. In my opinion they are unnecessary these days. > Have never seen screen burn-in on modern monitors. Eliminate the > overhead, > and the headaches. Cute isn't worth it either. > > -- Dennis McGrath > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Productivity Tools for R:Base Programmers > http://www.enteract.com/~mcgrath/dennis > > -- Full time consultant with: > SQL Resources Group > Steve Hartmann > Oak Park, IL > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ramsour Mike > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R:Mail question > > > In using the R:Mail utility it appears that the screen saver prevents > R:Mail > from completing its operation. Each time that it has run with the screen > saver on it won't do anything until the screen is deactivated i.e. I > supply > the password so that I can use my system. This is running with the latest > version of R:Base for Windows under Windows 2000. I thought maybe the > e-mail client (Outlook 98 on my system) was required to be running when > R:Mail is launched. > > Has anyone experienced this situation? If so, is there a workaround or > configuration setting that I can adjust? I currently have a program that > runs at 5:30 AM that uses R:Mail when I get into my office at 7:30 R:Mail > is > attempting to connect to the e-mail client. As soon as I turn the screen > saver off R:Mail completes its job -- and not until. It works great as > long > as there is no screen saver on. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks > > Mike Ramsour > c/o AK Steel Coshocton Works > > Voice: 1-740-829-4340 > Fax: 1-740-829-4211 > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
