Howard, my problem doesn't freeze Powermail, the only interruption comes from the fact that the error dialogue box needs to be OK-ed before PM will do anything else. Which is fine if I'm sitting there at the computer, but not so good if I'm away from the office for the day and have left the mac on to collect mail and do all those other things that we let our machines get on with in our absence.
I've not had an error since I moved the spam filters back to high up the filter list, but the mac has been asleep for a lot of the intervening time (ie. not much mail retrieved) so I'll have to wait longer before I can assess whether it's worked or not. I'm still of the opinion that it might have been caused by receiving a spam email carrying an attachment that gets filtered to the trash before reaching the spam filter -- which then also tries to move the attachment to the trash. Maybe PM loses track of the attachment location between the filters -- like when you manually move an attachment in the finder, and then you have to deselect the message in PM and reselect it for PM to relink to the new location. -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.5 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio <www.sharkattack.co.uk> -- Original message: Received from Howard on 13/4/06 at 08:10 >I'm getting the same thing occasionally, both on my G5 and on my >PowerBook Ti. It seems to happen when retrieving a spam file, probably a >Windoze virus. And, yes, it freezes PowerMail. I usually have to restart >PowerMail. One time, even after multiple restarts, it continued to >freeze PowerMail. I stopped it by accessing webmail on the account that >I guessed had the bad file, and deleted it there. > >Yes, it's annoying. I'd like to hear CTM's comments. > >Howard > > >
