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VanguardLH wrote:

> > When a pop3 login failure occurs, outlook will throw up a login
> > window showing user name, password, and a "remember password"
> > checkbox. The user name and password is always filled in, but
> > to dismiss the window I have to restore the check in the
> > "remember password" box and then hit OK. The login window then
> > goes away, and because it does not immediately come back I presume
> > the login happened correctly without issue. This will happen
> > several times per hour while outlook is running.
> >
> > Hence my question here, which is how can I set outlook to NOT
> > prompt me with a login window when a pop3 login failure occurs,
> > but instead have it simply ignore the incident and retry it on
> > it's own, automatically, without needing assistance from me.
>
> POP only has 2 status codes: +OK and -ERR. There may be a text
> comment appended to the error issued by the server in response
> to a command from the client but they are not standard strings
> so no e-mail client can decipher those strings. The client only
> sees +OK or -ERR to the result of the command it issues.

I've enabled smtp logging in outlook 2000 (which required the creation
of a new registry key).

This is an example of what is happening during one of these failed login
events:

Microsoft Internet Messaging API 5.00.2919.6600
POP3 Log started at 06/11/2009 10:01:38

POP3: 10:01:45 [db] Connecting to 'pop1.sympatico.ca' on port 110.
POP3: 10:01:45 [rx] +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
POP3: 10:01:45 [tx] USER b1xxxxxx
POP3: 10:01:45 [rx] +OK please send PASS command
POP3: 10:01:45 [tx] PASS ********
POP3: 10:01:46 [rx] -ERR mail storage services unavailable, wait a
few minutes and try again.
POP3: 10:01:46 [db] Connection to 'pop1.sympatico.ca' closed.
POP3: 10:01:48 [db] Connecting to 'pop1.sympatico.ca' on port 110.
POP3: 10:01:48 [rx] +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
POP3: 10:01:48 [tx] USER b1xxxxxx
POP3: 10:01:48 [rx] +OK please send PASS command
POP3: 10:01:48 [tx] PASS ********
POP3: 10:01:48 [rx] +OK mailbox has 0 messages
POP3: 10:01:48 [tx] STAT
POP3: 10:01:48 [rx] +OK 0 0
POP3: 10:01:48 [tx] QUIT
POP3: 10:01:48 [rx] +OK mailbox unchanged, POP3 server signing off
POP3: 10:01:48 [db] Connection to 'pop1.sympatico.ca' closed.

I suppose that if there was some way to have Outlook trap or look for
"ERR mail storage services unavailable" and in that case have it
immediately try the login again without prompting me, that would be
ideal.

Otherwise, is there a pop3 proxy I can install that will do this (and
nothing else) for me? And where outlook would then perform a pop3 login
into the proxy? I guess it would sort of be like a local pop3 server
for outlook?