Outlook2003 SMTP

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SimonW

Hi all,

When I am sending mail using SMTP in outlook 2003

The task viewer never shows anything under the 'remain header' and the
'progress header' just says processing.

The email does send, I just expected to see a bar under progress, and the
time remaining like I do receiving mail via pop3.

Any suggestions?

TIA
 
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Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]

The progress bar for sending is not shown because the computation to
determine how many bytes will eventually be sent is quite expensive since
the messages are not stored in the format in which they are sent. When
downloading messages, on the other hand, the number of bytes to be
downloaded is given to Outlook by the POP3 server and is thus extremely
cheap to obtain. We decided that in general users would be much happier to
just have Outlook send the messages when they clicked "Send" rather than
have a noticable delay while Outlook did the computations required to show
sending progress.
 
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