Well, I'm back to posting using Thunderbird again. :-(
I haven't seen the message I posted earlier using The Bat!, so I don't know if there was a problem with it. In any case, more serious problems have since developed.
I had such high hopes yesterday. After several months of cold feet, I finally decided to bite the bullet and test TB!'s IMAP functioning with the latest beta. I worked for a couple of hours, and everything seemed to work much better than in the past. (There are still some basic IMAP features missing, but otherwise, everything seemed okay.)
I left the program running overnight, and when I got up this morning, there was an error message on my screen:
"Could not create a new index of a message base."
Awasu, my RSS reader, was also running, and also displayed an error:
"Can't load the feed items."
It appears that the two errors might have been related, but I'm not sure how. Anyway, I closed both programs and started up The Bat! again. Here's where I seemed to make a serious error: I started experimenting with my settings.
Now I found that it was impossible to work, with dozens of Command Center tasks reproducing like rabbits. One thing that I noticed was that for each folder, I now had FIVE IDENTICAL tasks, all saying, "Sync with xxx". This resulted in the same problem that caused me to give up on Mulberry a few months ago, when I had to wait for long periods of time while headers were downloading, unable to read my messages.
I clicked on a message and waited (and waited) for the body to download. Then, the status bar said something like "Unable to select Spam folder" (not the folder I had selected), and then I suddenly started to get error messages of the form:
"An error occurred while reading the message base ...\4D457154.TBB. Do you want to repair this message base now?"
At this point, if I clicked Yes, the Folder Maintenance Center opened with "Check Integrity/Repair" checked under Actions to Perform. Unfortunately, while all my IMAP folders were listed, I didn't know how these relate to the 4D457154.TBB message base.
Should I open the Folder Maintenance Center, select all the folders, and repair them all? Is this safe with IMAP, or am I in danger of losing messages on the server, as has sometimes happened in the past?
Does anybody know?
-- Keith
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