On Fri 4 June 2004, 14:43:09 +1000, Newsroom wrote: > I opened The Bat! as usual only to discover that all of the emails for > one account had completely disappeared. > > The log for that account looks something like this: > > 6/3/2004, 15:11:41: FETCH - receiving mail messages > 6/3/2004, 15:11:43: FETCH - connected to POP3 server > 6/3/2004, 15:11:45: FETCH - authenticated (plain) > 6/3/2004, 15:11:45: FETCH - 193 messages in the mailbox, 17 new > 6/3/2004, 15:11:47: FETCH - Received message from > [EMAIL PROTECTED], size: 43024 bytes, subject: "Mail Delivery > (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED])" > !6/3/2004, 15:11:47: FETCH - could not store message (file name - > C:\DOCUME~1\BARRYT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\bat1429.tmp) > 6/3/2004, 15:11:48: FETCH - Received message from > [EMAIL PROTECTED], size: 42922 bytes, subject: "Mail Delivery > (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED])" > !6/3/2004, 15:11:48: FETCH - could not store message (file name - > C:\DOCUME~1\BARRYT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\bat142B.tmp) > and so on
These last two emails look as though they have virus-laden attachments. Do you have a virus checker that checks the attachments as they are downloaded? It might have prevented the temp file being written (that's where emails go before they are transferred to the inbox). What happens is the virus checker detects the virus as TB! is trying to write the file and prevents it from being written to disk. > I checked C:\DOCUME~1\BARRYT~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\, but I have no idea why > The Bat! could not store the messages or why the earlier messages > disappeared. Does anyone have any thoughts? Not sure why it would have deleted the earlier messages though, unless TB! got as far as deleting the inbox file prior to writing an updated one, but was prevented from writing the updated file by the virus checker detecting the virus in the attachment. -- Robin Anson Using The Bat! v2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
