-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jonathan,
@29--2002, 23:09 -0500 (05:09 UK time) Jonathan Angliss said: >> Sometimes... Out of nowhere ... The Bat just stops picking up >> mail. Something INTERNAL hangs. NO visible issues - just a >> strange absence of mail. Shut down THE BAT, and you get the >> message similar to "There are still operations in progress. Want >> to exit when they are finished?" Neither response allows you >> exit. Killing THE BAT task is the only way out. > .. then something may occur to terminate the connection > prematurely, I think this is what is happening... > then that global variable (probably a boolean) is not reset to the > state reporting that it is not doing anything. I think that the client side Socket connection is left open and until it is flagged as closed TB won't open a new one. > Maybe if somebody that has regular contact with the developers > (Marck? Allie?) pose the above theory, It may be worth a BugTraq entry. It never happens to me (Win2k Pro, LAN connect to MDaemon server, polling for mail every 1 minute (that's right - sixty seconds!). I think it requires a POP server on the other end that is capable of losing the connection. MDaemon doesn't appear to be <g>. >> I cannot recreate it ... and it doesn't happen very often. Maybe >> once a month; twice at the most. What server are you talking to? Is it local or is it that of an ISP? > Try seeing if you can terminate the connection in an abnormal way, > such as 95% the way through picking up the last message, > disconnect... *shrugs*... it may have the same effect, or TB! may > know how to handle that event properly. That would be an interesting exercise. - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.1.91-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQE9bz5wOeQkq5KdzaARAoKxAKCBm3xFV1HOraMeVeHakSikZgTn9ACg73RG KKRr4F6Jjoy9Hp9hgAhAaPU= =w7y1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
