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?
Eudora uses the classic *nix sendmail file format. This permits you to move the mailboxes mac to pc to *nix without any hassle. Messages are deleted by removing them from the mailbox's active index (TOC), and placing a copy of the message into the Trash mailbox. IOW, no message is actually ever lost until the mailbox is garbage collected (compacted); this has nothing to do with "emptying the trash". Quite often the rebuilt-after-crash process ends up re-adding those old messages to the mailbox's TOC.
Eudora contains preferences that tell it when to automatically compact the mailboxes. But many people turn 'em off!
To manually compact a mailbox, just click on the text at the bottom where it shows how many messages are present and how much storage is used.
At 11:03 AM +1300 02/19/2004, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
as far back as 2002... total in my In mailbox was 7000 messages!!
Geeze, Andrew! Keeping all your eggs in one basket? Do some housekeeping! Use the Mailboxes window... Create some additional mailboxes and sort your mail! Then compact that inbox!
- Dan.
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