Sean McBride at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:12:37 -0500 >>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.
I'm seeing the same problem too, it's happened with several e-mails. 5.5, MacBook Pro, 10.4.8. -- Derry Thompson g l o d e r w o r k s | Design - Hosting - Programming <http://www.gloderworks.com> + 44 (0) 1562 631430 t + 44 (0) 7976 802487 m
