Bats- It's not that a "standard desktop application" should be a good candidate for an NT service, but that certain features should. Here's my situation:
I run TB on a Windows 2000 server with its mail repository sitting on the server box. I *use* TB from a one of several different computers in workstation mode which all rely on the mail storage on the server. TB is therefore both MUA and MTA in this situation, and it's the MTA functionality which should be able to run as a service. I need TB to run on the server unattended picking up mail from my various accounts in the background. It does this quite well. Then when I launch TB on a workstation my new mail is waiting for me. Now...if TB were running as a service on the server then no user would have to be logged in all the time at the server box and it would 1.) be more secure, and 2.) start up immediately when the server is booted. This last has two advantages: it eliminates one step in the bootup process, and it allows unattended recovery from power failure. -Mark Wieder Using The Bat! v1.60h on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
