Hello Ben, >:) It's not PowerMail's responsibility that your system is shutting >down.
Correct. PowerMail is likely not responsible for causing my system to crash. But that isn't the point. The point is that when a program has an open file, and is not currently manipulating it, there should be little to no possibility of corruption. And that is the responsibility of each individual program, not Apple. Think about it this way... each time your System crashes does it tell you upon reboot that it needs to rebuild the harddrive? Does it tell you that all your System preferences are now all corrupt, even for things that you were not using at the time of the crash? When you are writing a Word file and the power cuts out suddenly, do you lose the 8 saved pages of text in that file or just what you hadn't saved? If a system crash happens while Safari or Internet Explorer are open, do you expect that the next time you reboot that all your saved URLs will be gone? Of course not. At least not every time something like this happens. The truth is that programmers have to assume that unexpected crashes will happen, including ones the program itself causes. It's really not a question of "if", but a question of "when". So programs that are not set up to expect the unexpected have a problem that needs to be corrected. From my earlier stability problems Jerome said "When a crash occurs on IDLE, there is no rebuild." That is the correct answer. Unfortunately, that isn't my experience. And since this is happening regularly, that indicates to me that something is not right with PowerMail even if I am the only one experiencing this problem. Steve
