Friday, May 13, 2005, 10:51:10 PM, Marck wrote: AJ>> Surely, unless one has a large number of folders to filter out to, AJ>> then any of those target folders is also going to be relatively AJ>> high traffic?
MDP> No folder is as "high traffic" as the inbox. None. every incoming MDP> message pauses in the Inbox before moving to a filtered destination. Fair enough, but this is still a relative measure. MDP> Keeping important messages in the Inbox is suicide. That's a MDP> substantiated fact. Messages are being added to and deleted from the MDP> folder continually. You think NT or 9x are stable enough to guarantee MDP> no glitches when data is being moved that frequently? I don't! To be honest, I don't think I have ever had an issue with Windows failing to write a file in the manner the application instructed. The only occasion where I have actually (apparently) destroyed data was TB! killing off a portion of one of my inboxes! I don't think it fair to blame this on Windows when there is an equal (perhaps greater) chance that TB! was to blame (and yes I know this point supports your original advice). AJ>> And while we're here - define "high traffic". MDP> Adding and deleting every time messages are received, wherever they MDP> end up. That do for you? Again, a relative measure. And any email client must do this. Surely it would be fundamental to any such software to ensure that this function works correctly if no other. AJ>> Anyone care to enlighten me? MDP> I think I have. This is fundamental advice. I've seen too many MDP> "Waaah!! TB ate my inbox and all my data is gone!" type posts to make MDP> this advice anything other than firm and serious. And it's not because MDP> TB is bad or wrong here. It's that the OS is still not stable enough MDP> to guarantee no faults. It's that new AV solutions become ever more MDP> Draconian in their treatment of files they deem "infected". It's that MDP> lightening strikes can still cause a power fluctuation just as a write MDP> operation is going on. Let's not invite catastrophe. On this basis, you ought not to be using Windows at all. I recommend RISC OS. It's so niche that no malware author would bother and it runs rings around Windows for useability. Running it on a laptop could be problematic though (to avoid those power spikes). I just checked. My oldest email account has 4 years of emails in the inbox. It's only 549 and another 657 in (Known), but that must be a decent number of writes. 5,838 emails across 9 email accounts (plus who knows how many that have been deleted). 1 problem, ever - which was sorted out by recourse to a backup. -- Cheers, Allister :flag-newzealand: New Zealand / Aotearoa ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
