I am running NIS 2011 on a Dell 4300 laptop with WInXP. My email appl is Outlook2003
I recently received an "email error" that does not make sense.
First, I was notified of the error by a "Email Error" item that appeared on my task bar. The item had the NIS logo so I assumed it was from NIS. But no amount of clicking (right or left) had any effect.
So, I opened NIS, clicked on History and found a High severity error about an email message that did not get sent out because of a server interruption. After checking a few things I concluded that an email sent out at 11:00 AM did not get to its destination. But the error message said that the problem occured at 12:14
After I sent the 11AM email, I made sure the Outbox was clear and exited Outlook (I received no indication that the email was still in the OutBox -- Outlook will always check when you exit). I put my laptop in StandBy about 11:15. About 12:15, I woke up the laptop and saw the error message. The 12:14 and 12:15 are close enough that NIS apparently posted the error to the History file when the laptop woke up; not when the problem apparently happened.
Questions:
why is the item on my task bar "dead"?
why did NIS post the error approx 75 minutes after it happened?
Any help would be appreciated.