Rick Lecoat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2006-11-04 03:22 said: >For some reason, I've been getting regular internet connection outages >at around the same time every night -- nothing to do with Powermail of >course, but it does have a side effect. Often the connection goes down >during a mail fetch, and I find that I am left with a half-downloaded, >broken-icon message. > >The problem is that if (once service is restored) I use either of PM's >options for dealing with this message -- 'Retrieve completely now' or >'Retrieve completely at next connection' -- the message is NOT retrieved >but it's Status icon changes to indicate that it is no longer on the >server. So it's lost, and I have no way to know whether it was just spam >or a request for me to do a billion dollars worth of design work for the >Apple. (I know, I know.)
I reported the exact same problem to this list on Oct 24. I'm glad someone else is having the problem. :) It's happened both at home on my Mac Pro and at work on my G5. Two entirely different network setups/ servers/etc. >FWIW, my settings are for PM to leave messages on the server for 1 day >after download, just in case (which was supposed to avoid this problem). It doesn't help though. >I guess I should update to the full finished version of 5.5 (to be >honest, until I checked I thought I was using the last previous non-beta >version; I'd forgotten that I'd upped to the 5.5 beta2 a while back). I'm using the final 5.5. -- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi
