PC Ext: MS-DOS External and RebootOnCE

• Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, versions 3.2 and 3.5

SUMMARY

With Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, you can automatically reboot the MS-DOS External Mail program when critical errors occur. To specify automatic rebooting when critical errors occur, specify RebootOnCE in the EXTERNAL.INI file. For example:

   [External]
   RebootOnCE

MORE INFORMATION

A critical error is generated by MS-DOS when an unrecoverable situation occurs in an application. When this happens, the message "Abort, Retry, Fail?" is displayed. To continue using the application, you must respond.

For example, this type of critical error occurs if, when the External Mail program is running, a network connection fails because of a problem on the file server. The External Mail program traps the error and stops moving mail on the failed connection; however, it continues to move mail on other connections. The External Mail program tries to re-establish the failed connection and MS-DOS successfully reconnects if the condition that caused the critical error has been corrected.

In some environments, network redirectors become unstable after a critical error occurs. It is possible that the External Mail program will not be able to re-establish the postoffice connection and will hang. If this occurs, the computer on which the External Mail program is running must be rebooted. Instead of manually rebooting the computer, you can specify an External Mail program option to reboot automatically.

This information is available in the README.TXT file on Mail for PC Networks Disk 1 for version 3.2.