>I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the >INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and >the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the Inbox >folder is empty.
1) You should not run antivirus software on your Mac because there are no Mac viruses. What ClamXav spotted were Windows viruses at most. You have no reason to worry about them. They won't spread. 2) You should never allow any antivirus program to mess with your email data. The data structure managed by your email program is complicated. Your antivirus program hacked at it with no knowledge of how these files are managed. It deleted the contents of a mail file, but may not have deleted the file itself and it certainly did not adjust the index file to match. So the email program's index is pointing to a file that is empty or not there. Hence a ghost file. 3) Two problem messages out of 1.45 GB of messages. Why are you spending any time on this? The odds are that in messing with this you will make things much worse. I would leave it alone. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
