[spambayes-dev] stopping pop3proxy

[Mark Hammond]

> > Also in terms of stopping pop3proxy, on my fiance's
> computer pop3proxy
> > is running all the time so that she doesn't have to know
> how to start &
> > stop it when checking for mail (it's too old for pop3proxy_service).
> > This works fine, except that when she shuts down Windows,
> it comes up
> > with a "can't shut this program down" message (it does terminate it
> > after a delay, but it's annoying).  Is there some way that
> we can handle
> > this?  I presume Windows sends a sigterm or something to the
> > application?  Would other OSs do exactly the same thing?
>
> Windows sends a message to all top-level windows on shutdown, but the
> pop3proxy has no windows.  Oddly, my XP box shuts down fine, with no
> warnings - I can't explain that... Mark?

I've seen similar things on Win9x, but not the NT platform.  Windows does
try and shut down console apps, but I have no idea exactly what it does.

Or-even-roughly <wink>

Mark.