Now what you're describing could by chance have been an HTML formatted email, like a webpage someone may have sent you, then you clicked and then went to the website. -Clint
Happy Holidays to all & God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "John O'Flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've been re-reading this recent thread, and noticing Clint's astonishment at some strange discoveries, and Gerry's explanations, and decided to look at my own .dbx files (running IE/OE6 on W98se). The files seem to be shuffled round like a pack of cards and are full of things I deleted ages ago. They correspond _roughly_ to folders I have made in OE for messages I want to keep, but stuff from other folders is tossed in randomly. Will the program eventually bog down under the weight of all this "bloating"? And should I give it a "purge"? Strangest of all (dig this one, Clint!), in my Folders.dbx file, along with piles of other debris, I found portions of a document that I was reading about a week ago *on a web page*. Just reading it, after which I either closed the window or loaded something else. I'm trying to remember what else I was doing at the time. I know I had several browser windows open, and I'm pretty sure OE was loaded too. So it seems that OE can pick up bits of other things that just happen to be in Main Memory at the same time? Anybody ever hear of anything like this? The only other thing I can think of is that _around_ that time I was having a problem with freezes, and a few times I had to do an "improper" re-start of the computer (in the words of the blue screen). I never did figure out what was causing this, but the problem went away. I don't know if it is relevant. Any thoughts? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 03:33 AM 11/28/2002 -0600, OrpheusComputing.com wrote the following: > > >Thanks Gerry. Ok, I understand that, and I do those things > >at times......but why is it when I open the outbox.dbx file > >in a text editor it is STILL showing these emails from 3 > >years ago? I *can* understand how the text from emails shows > >in that file, but only *temporarily*. I'm at a lost to > >understand why that file is still showing 3 yr. old emails > >even after dozens of reformats! > > The master folder (named folder.dbx) controls the contents of all the other > folders. A similar file (eudora.toc) exists in Eudora. > > I went through something like this right after I copied all my Eudora files > to my new WinXP laptop. Some how I missed a file or two. I ended up with > one Eudora folder that had messages in it that shouldn't be there (they > were moved to other folders). I deleted the folder and low and behold > Eudora recreated the folder and the bad messages reappeared. Frustrating to > say the least, especially after you do this a number of times. I finally > found out that the master folder in Eudora keeps a list of the contents of > all the other folders. So just deleting a folder is not enough, I needed to > delete the master folder (it is recreated when Eudora starts). > > I'd bet that the same thing is occurring with you. Delete (or rename) the > outbox.dbx folder AND the folder.dbx file. Re-start OE and I'll bet the > "old" messages in outbox.dbx are no longer there! > > The outbox.dbx file will be recreated and so will the folder.dbx file. In > fact, the folder.dbx is recreated by reading all the contents of the > existing *.dbx files! > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >At 03:51 AM 11/26/2002 -0600, OrpheusComputing.com wrote the > >following: > > > > >If mine gets "bloated", I'll try that. But I'm not that > > >concerned with the size problem. What gets me is how the > > >outbox.dbx file shows data (even though it's empty) and from > > >3 YEARS ago....and more so, email that I never sent! > > > >There are several different ways the outbox.dbx file get > >filled with > >messages that you never sent or appear to be multiple > >versions of the same > >thing. Eudora does some of the same things in their Out > >folder. > > > >You open an e-mail message in your Outbox before the e-mail > >message is > >sent. (I do this quite frequently in Eudora). > >Messages were opened from your Outbox. (Another thing I do > >often in Eudora, > >also see last item below). > >Work offline and have not made a remote connection. (And yet > >another one I > >do often in Eudora) > > > >Open and close an e-mail message while it is in your Outbox, > >the e-mail > >message may not be sent because you may have changed its > >status. If the > >status of the e-mail message has been changed, the title of > >the e-mail > >message no longer appears in italics. > > > >After sending an e-mail message, Outlook moves the e-mail > >message to your > >Outbox. When Outlook connects to your mail server, the e-mail > >message is > >delivered and a copy of the sent e-mail message appears in > >your Outbox. > > > >A common one that happens to me in Eudora in that I open an > >old sent > >message to resend with editing to a new location and I end up > >with a > >duplicate unsent one. I think the same thing happens in > >Outbox but I can't > >remember. > >-- > >Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
