Hello Thomas,
On Saturday, May 26, 2018, you wrote: > Hello Chris, > On Wed, 23 May 2018 12:12:17 +0100 GMT (23-May-18, 18:12 +0700 GMT), > Chris Wilson wrote: >> My UK based ISP Zen Internet sent me a nasty e-mail saying a lot of >> Spam mail was emanating from my PC yesterday. I run a legacy TB! >> version v5.8.10 as I am very comfortable with it, but it has never >> knowingly done the following before. >> I had a filter set to forward from my main e-mail account >> "chriswilson.tv" folder to my GMAIL account, so I can read it on my >> phone when out and about. It appears that although any Spam I receive >> at chriswilson.tv is also forwarded to my GMAIL account, this >> particular mail did send, but remained in TB's Outbox. I poll the POP3 >> mail server at Zen every three minutes, and apparently every three >> minutes since January this year TB! has attempted to send this Spam >> e-mail. A recent review of mail security at Zen had them challenge >> this with me and it resulted in them stopping my ability to send mail >> through their servers altogether until I could explain what was >> happening with my mail client r PC. An hour or so on the phone to them >> today had me by chance look in the TB! Outbox and see a message sat >> there that was one it was trying to forward to my GMAIL address. I >> quoted the headers and Zen confirmed this was the single e-mail that >> TB! had constantly been trying to push across their servers since >> January! >> Should this have been reflected back with a 500 authorization failure >> by Zen or GMAIL, and even if not should TB! have just kept on trying >> to push it through? Is there a workaround like TB! automatically >> emptying the Outbox every night, and if so, how should I implement >> that please? Thanks ;) > I cannot confirm this; sometimes a mail cannot be sent and then it > won't be sent, and TB! will leave it in the Outbox. In your case, the > mail was sent but it still remained in the Outbox. That is weird. Thank you Thomas, the issue has not returned and I have had many years trouble free enjoyment from this elderly version, I will put it down to "one of those things" :) -- Chris Wilson "Using The Bat! v5.8.10 on Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1" -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 8.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
