At 10:29 9/9/2003, webmaster wrote: >Has anyone been using outlook xp and it pop up the password box a lot when >sending and receiveing? This happens quit often and I have to net stop >xmail and net start xmail to solve the issue.
Outlook is well known for putting up the password box any time anything goes wrong. It can't find DNS for the server, it puts up the password box. It can't connect to the server, it puts up the password box. The password was wrong, it puts up the password box. Someone in the next room sneezed, it puts up the password box... There used to be a way to log the mail server sessions in Outlook, but it's been years since I've used it and I can't remember how to do it (not sure if it's available in newer versions of Outlook either). Check the documentation to see if you can find a way to log the sessions - if so, those logs should tell you exactly what is going wrong. >Also curious as to why the retcode change in message filters? > >This has cause me a little trouble. I tried to upgrade to xmail 1.16 but >could not get all my filters to work correct. In fact I could not send or >receive mail at all. > >The upgrade went like this: Stop the service and then copy over the >binaries and the new tab file and thats it. Then I started the service. >I tried to fiddle with the codes thinking that replacing " 97 " with like >4 + 16 or somethign would work but nothing worked. I don't still have a copy of 1.15 of XMail around, or I'd check the return codes for you. But the reason for the change in the return code values was to make it easier to determine whether to continue to the next filter, or to stop filter processing. filters.in.tab and filters.out.tab list all the filters that you might want run, and each filter returns a particular code to determine what to do with the message. IIRC, new codes 4, 5, and 6 correspond to old codes 97, 98, and 99, while 7 corresponds to old code 100. Adding 16 to that return code says "stop processing any more filters - this message is done now". So, returning 20 (4 + 16) would mean "Reject this message, without telling the sender, and without freezing it on the server, and don't bother processing any more filters". Note that returning 0 (zero) is equivalent to saying "Go ahead and process this message, if there are more filters, let them run". Does any of this help? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
