Hi Michael,
On 26 December 1999 at 18:34:38 GMT +0100 (which was 17:34 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points:
MH> in our local network environment, users are connecting with The
MH> Bat! to our local mail server rather than to an Dial-Up Provider
MH> via an RAS connection. Thus in the relevant settings (SMTP server,
MH> POP server etc.) the local IP of the mail server is set
MH> (192.168.1.1).
Me too.
MH> This works fine when retrieving mail (Alt-F2).
MH> It does not work so fine when sending mail (Shift-Alt-F2). The
MH> first time when sending mail after launching The Bat! the DUN
MH> window pops up and asks the user to establish an RAS connection.
MH> From the second time on (after launching) this does not happen
MH> anymore.
MH> How can I make The Bat! behave the same when sending mail as when
MH> retrieving mail? Or: how can I make it behave the same when
MH> sending the first time (after launching) as when sending the
MH> second, third, etc. time? Or is this a bug?
MH> Part of the problem apparently is a Windows setting under
MH> "Internet options/Connections" in IE5: there we have "dial only if
MH> no network connection" enabled - but I would hate to change that
MH> just to work around a problem with The Bat!
MH> I think this is a question for network experts. Suggestions
MH> welcome.
I have never seen this happen. :-/ This may be because I use Proxy
server settings under IE5 which bypasses the IE5 penchant for dialling
whenever it sees a DNS request go out. But you're using an absolute IP
for the SMTP server address which means it shouldn't touch the IE5
dialler at all.
I think that you may be right about it being a bug, although I cannot
confirm this behaviour.
Cheers,
Marck
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