This afternoon, Cindy (my significant other) was having a difficult time with Entourage. Everytime she checked her mail, the program would crash. I gave her the usual suggestions: reboot, run HD diagnostics, rebuild database, advanced rebuild, etc. Nothing helped.
Then I recalled occasionally seeing this pattern when I was using Claris Emailer. I would occasionally encounter a "killer email" that could not be downloaded from the POP server without bringing down the program. So I used a web-based mail interface to check the files on Cindy's server. Nothing but two spams. I deleted them both, using the web interface. Ran Entourage, checked mail. No crash. Problem solved. My question is this - why would an email, even a malformed or corrupted one, cause Entourage to crash? Shouldn't the program do some sort of sanity check or consistency check on the headers, MIME attachments, and body components, to make sure that the download will work correctly? Or is this not possible? -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
