[pchelpers] Re: Problem Getting Thunderbird To Open Next Mail In List/ And Open To Inbox

Hi Ekhart,

Monday, May 28, 2007, 6:45:03 PM, you wrote:

EGlnl> Most older users of TB want to be in control of everything and
EGlnl> are upset when something becomes automatic in a new version.

Just default it to automatic for new installs only, not upgrade installs.


>> It has an option to compact automatically when exiting, but I have
>> that turned off, since it takes a while on my system.

>> I used to see corruption every month or so, but in the more recent
>> versions (approximately the last year), I haven't seen any
>> corruption issues.

EGlnl> Are you saying that you compact manually or that it can large
EGlnl> amounts of "deleted" but not physically removed mail? In other
EGlnl> words can it handle huge index files with large numbers of
EGlnl> "hidden" mail? And do you mean index corruption or actual mail
EGlnl> corruption?

I normally don't bother compacting very often.

I've lost actual email messages once.

Most of the corruption that I've seen in the past has apparently been
index corruption.

-- 
Scott.



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