It's not the first time this has happened. The clients can be either Windows or Mac, and the problem still comes up in about 20% of the users.

Some do not respond to the restart of the server, and require a new password.

Surgemail is running on a Mac here.

Stan

On 2011-03-08, at 11:31 AM, Kevin Gagel wrote:

I've never heard of that problem Stan...

Kevin W. Gagel
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College of New Caledonia
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On Monday 07/03/2011 at 3:29 pm, Stan Greenspan wrote:

The power went off today for a period that was longer than the time we have battery backup for. I was not able to shut down the Surgemail server before the power ran out, so it was an "unclean" stop.
On restart, we had a problem with passwords not being recognized.
Restarting the mail server solved it. Is this an "undocumented feature" or a "bug"?
Running 5.2c-1 as per ChrisP

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