Trent, > If for whatever reason iMail cannot connect to the odbc external database, > i.e. the database server crashes, all messages are bounced as user unknown. > Is there a way to configure iMail to just appear offline with it cannot > connect to the database, rather than bounce messages as user unknown? If > there isn't, I'd like to request the functionality.
Let me say that I think this is a great idea (4xx is a more appropriate code for an app-level problem), and yet... > Occasionally, when we lose our Internet connection from our > provider, for some reason our database server crashes ...this is pretty aberrant behavior that I would suggest would be something to fix instead of waiting for Ipswitch to work around it. Also... > Even if the database restores itself to functionality, without > stopping and restarting the mail services, messages continue to get > bounced. ...I don't have this issue, if I administratively stop and restart SQL Server (7.06 HF2). If you're seeing this, it could be part of your interrelated connectivity/service stoppage problem. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
