> The gremlin-infested 9600 crashed while loading my mail today. When I > rebooted it told me that one of the mailboxes was damaged, so it was > rebuilt. When I loaded my mail it took a long time... and messages > were duplicated. But when i checked... there were old messages I'd > deleted as far back as 2002... total in my In mailbox was 7000 > messages!! How is this possible? It's set to empty trash on quit and > the Trash mailbox didn't contain these anyway!
Is this a pop3 mailbox that you are reading? If it is, you may have 'leave mail on server' checked somewhere. If the mailer got confused about mail ID's (most mailers assign/use a unique ID to each mail message as they are read from the server) then it will have re-downloaded everything from the server and duplicated mail. This would also explain the old email. Only other explanation is that the mailbox file isn't very efficient, and that ic contained fragments of deleted emails that the recovery process resurected. Are the old email corrupt or truncated, or do they contain full text? Matt -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
