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!
This will happen when the computer pukes with Eudora running. When you trash a message or move it to another mailbox the original message is still in the source mailbox but it is marked as gone. When Eudora rebuilds the mailbox it isn't certain about these messages so it marks them with (I think) a question mark. The odd part is that mailboxes are normally compressed (which removes these old messages) when the unused space exceeds a certain amount. 7000 messages dating back to 2002 is strange. It should have compressed the In box many times between now and 2002. You can manually force it to compress one or all mailboxes but I couldn't find anything to cause it to not compress them at all.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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