Receive email in Standby mode?

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Peter Chatterton

Could someone explain how & why my XP SP2 PC receives mail in Standby mode?

It shouldn't be possible, considering that the hard drive is shut down. So email
must wake the system up, but I haven't seen that in the Help and google doesn't give
any good hits on 'Standby & Email'.

Thanks,
Peter
 
Hi
Email is not received because an email is knocking on your door (like the
mailman) to come in. Email is received when your email application is set
to periodically go online and check your email box/server for new mail. If
the email application does not have an option to work while in standby No
checking for new email would be performed.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
Thanks.

My Outlook Express is set to look for msg's every 15 mins but not to connect
if it's not on, but it sure looks like it's getting them in Standby.

Peter
 
When I next put it in Standby I'll shut off Outlook Express,
that should show something.
 
It didn't prove anything, but it did show me a connection problem.

What I'm going to do is get someone to send me an email at a specific time when it's
in Standby and watch it and see what happens, if anything.

Peter
 
It didn't prove anything, but it did show me a connection problem.

What I'm going to do is get someone to send me an email at a specific timewhen it's
in Standby and watch it and see what happens, if anything.

Peter






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Email mail boxes are usually stored outside of your PC, at your
Internet email provider. This is so that any emails sent will be
received (unfortunately SPAM is included) and stored until your email
client requests to "download" these onto your PC. We do not normally
run any email "server" system on our XP PCs.

A simple comparision is you need to go to your postal mail box in
order to "pickup" your postal mail. This mail does not usually show
up on your table (office postal mail is the exception since companies
may have a dedicated postal mailroom.)
 
So the time-stamp on a msg is when it was rec'd by the ISP?

Peter

It didn't prove anything, but it did show me a connection problem.

What I'm going to do is get someone to send me an email at a specific time when it's
in Standby and watch it and see what happens, if anything.

Peter






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Email mail boxes are usually stored outside of your PC, at your
Internet email provider. This is so that any emails sent will be
received (unfortunately SPAM is included) and stored until your email
client requests to "download" these onto your PC. We do not normally
run any email "server" system on our XP PCs.

A simple comparision is you need to go to your postal mail box in
order to "pickup" your postal mail. This mail does not usually show
up on your table (office postal mail is the exception since companies
may have a dedicated postal mailroom.)
 
So the time-stamp on a msg is when it was rec'd by the ISP?

Peter






Email mail boxes are usually stored outside of your PC, at your
Internet email provider.  This is so that any emails sent will be
received (unfortunately SPAM is included)  and stored until your email
client requests to "download" these onto your PC.   We do not normally
run any email "server" system on our XP PCs.

A simple comparision is you need to go to your postal mail box in
order to "pickup" your postal mail.  This mail does not usually show
up on your table (office postal mail is the exception since companies
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If you were to notice, you may see mail dated the next day or a couple
days behind your current date. This seems to br a ploy by some
spammers to "by-pass" filter (even though not quite useful.)

Also the date listed may seem to be the "sending" time set by the
orginator of the email message (you see this usually on date
"complaint" responces in these newsgroups.)
 
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