Hello Alberto, AA> in the last month I had a lot of problem with the messages database AA> on several pc: I have more or less 40 pc running The Bat! as mail AA> client (different releases) on W2k fully patched with Symantec AA> Enterprise Edition (9) as Antivirus program. AA> In many cases the problem begins cancelling a message compression AA> (in many cases because the user want to shut down quickly ..:( ), AA> or in case of problem during the shut down. AA> On the next boot The Bat! ask to "resolve" the problem and anfert AA> clicking yes you can't see one or two month of mail... AA> So is it possible to recover messages in .bin file? And how can I AA> try to avoid this problem?
If you copy that .BIN file to somewhere and rename the copied file to .TBB, you may import the mails back from it to your desired folder. How to avoid this problems: exclude .TBB, .TBI and .BIN from the antivirus search regime. You wrote that user CANCELS the message compression. And there is a problem at the next boot, right? It seems to me that it CAN BE a bug in TB!, however, I would need the exact version number of yours to test it. Also: until the fix: switch off every account's Inbox's "Compress at exit" and send the users a mail at every Monday morning to do it manually! (This is easy by using the Scheduler.) Also: a 3-month puppy can be trained easily. He poops on the carpet, you push his nose into it ca. 5 times, he learns NOT to poop on the carpet anymore, because of its consequencies... Similarly, if your users realized that by cancelling the compress at exit cause problems, they should have realized that doing it again and again is not... hmm... beneficial... (A trick, I wrote it at least once to this list, so if someone reads it not the first time, sorry for it (Alberto: you may modify it if you dont have a 2nd HDD or partition, to a separate directory on C:, because you are concerned about the loss of the mails, not the HDD crash) How to store the mails at more than one HDD/partition all the time (even if one HDD crash, absolutely no mail will be lost)? - Make a new account (AccountX) with some false email address, set the home directory on the 2nd HDD - AccountX properties: Ignore Check all account request - Setup folders in AccountX with every other account's name - Setup a filter in every other account that the incoming and outgoing mails will have a copy in the corresponding AccountX folders So, if you make frequent backups, after a HDD crash all you have to do is backup the first HDD and copy back the mails from AccountX and sort them (manually). But none of the email will be lost... After a backup, if you wish, you may delete mails from AccountX. ) -- Vili ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
