Is this a pop3 mailbox that you are reading?
Yes.
If it is, you may have 'leave mail on server' checked somewhere.
I learned my lesson when I first started out with e-mail! The university server sent me a message to say that my mailbox was full and if I didn't remove the message queue by such-and-such a date it would be wiped for me.Since then I have set it to delete from server on downloading.
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?
They were uncorrupted. At least, those duplicates which I opened.
Eudora contains preferences that tell it when to automatically compact the mailboxes. But many people turn 'em off!
I have never had it turned on... and this problem has never occurred before, though the program has crashed plenty of times recently.
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!
They weren't IN the "In" mailbox... they just appeared there! They were all old messages I'd trashed up to 2 years ago. I have plenty of mailboxes... from which mesages I want to KEEP disappear...
Andrew, try weeding out your hard drive of any old Eudora file from previous installations. Sherlock or FileBuddy is probably the way to go. That's what solved it for me.
I do have old versions of Eudora, but I have done this for years.
Also see if some setting or preference from a current or previous install is causing duplicate files to be sent to another folder somewhere.
But getting rid of the files you might not even know you had should take care of it.
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.
So how do I make sure the trashed messages are really gone? -- Regards Andrew
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