On 18/5/04 11:25 am, "Kirk McElhearn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. In that case, it's still failing safe. It found hundreds of 'orphaned' messages and didn't know where they came from, so it restored them instead fo deleting them. It indicates that there was some fairly extensive corruption in your database. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> -- 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/>
