Hi martin,
Try opening the Inbox file with the Mailbag Assistant program. Assuming it
also won't crash, you can extract the offending message and re-save the
Inbox file.
You can later import the file with the bat.
By the way, you may want to remove the Inbox file from its default
directory, first. Then, launch thebat to do the import.
You can try Mailbag Assistant for 30 days for free, here:
http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/index.html
Good luck!
-Ricardo
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Monday, June 9, 2003, 9:27:57 AM, you wrote:
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mrc> Dear all,
mrc> Recently I've been having problems with certain spam mails which cause
mrc> The Bat to completely crash during the Connection Centre download. The
mrc> Bat crashes to Desktop, the mail fails to download and The Bat will
mrc> only complete a mail check again if I delete the offending email via
mrc> my web mail interface (luckily I have this option). Since I get a lot
mrc> of spam each day I can't be sure which spam email is causing this (if
mrc> I get another will try and isolate it).
mrc> Things took a turn for the worse today. The Bat still crashed but this
mrc> time seemed to download a problem message because now I cannot open my
mrc> Inbox folder. When I click on my Inbox, The Bat just hangs and the
mrc> message list is never displayed (have left it trying for over 30 mins).
mrc> Then if you try and shut The Bat down, it won't, it needs to be killed
mrc> via Task Manager. I've noticed that while it is trying to list the
mrc> Inbox contents, CPU usage is 100%. Would seem that a certain message
mrc> is throwing the whole thing into a spin.
mrc> My system details:
mrc> Windows 2000 Pro.
mrc> Athlon XP2100 with 1GB ram.
mrc> The Bat 1.62r (same problem with 1.62q, I just upgraded in case)
mrc> Inbox has 2947 messages in it and .tbb file is 178 MB in size.
mrc> Norton Antivirus 2002 installed but Autoprotect and Email protect are
mrc> both turned OFF.
mrc> Anyone got any thoughts as to what might be wrong and any way I can
mrc> get access back to all those emails in my Inbox (which I don't want to
mrc> lose).
mrc> Cheers
mrc> Martin
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