Re: ThorConnWndClass Issue

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From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:02:02 -0500

Jennifer wrote:
> Outlook 2000.

OK - not supported. May work sometimes, but won't at others, and there is no
fix.
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;245446
I strongly recommend you rethink your mail setup and have Exchange handle
all, regardless.

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> Jennifer wrote:
>>> I have Exchange 2000 server. I also have a pop3 server we use for
>>> incoming mail. My users send out mail through Exchange SMTP. They
>>> also have an Internet Mail Service in their Outlook profile when
>>> they pull in the mail from the pop3 server. The Exchange smtp
>>> forwards mail through my pop3/smtp server when it sends it out.
>>> Last Friday I got a bunch of users with mail stuck in their Outbox.
>>> The only thing that seemed to work was to recreate their Outlook
>>> profile. Internet Explorer would also not work on these machines.
>>> I probably wouldn't have thought too much about it, but I ended up
>>> with about 20-25 PCs with this issue. When I would close the
>>> Outlook, it would not respond so I had to end the task. When the
>>> PC was trying to shut down, I would get ThorConnWndClass not
>>> responding on every one of the PCs. I have not been able to find
>>> out too much about it. The only place I found something was on the
>>> Exchange Experts web site and they still didn't have any idea what
>>> the problem was. ??
>>
>> What version of Outlook?
>>
>> Regardless, you really ought to move away from POP in Outlook - it
>> isn't the best config. Decentralized and slow, problematic as you
>> are experiencing now, doesn't let you control email addressing,
>> doesn't let users use OWA, etc etc etc - see
>> http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF002.html for help on hosting
>> your domain's mail directly on the Exchange server.

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