On 5/17/04 8:09 PM, "David Cortright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My computer just crashed and when I reboot I received hundreds of redundant
>> messages that were being left on our server.
> ...
>> why would Entourage retrieve messages again from a month ago?
>
> Because it's failing safe. Clearly things weren't left in a good state after
> the crash, and since Entourage isn't sure if you have received these
> messages previously or not, it's doing the safe thing and downloading them.
> Better that then potentially deleting messages you haven't downloaded,
> wouldn't you agree?
I don't think it's downloading anything - I think it's finding messages in
that database that hadn't been written over. I saw this when rebuilding a
database; I don't have IMAP accounts so it can't be redownloading anything.
Kirk
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