[pchelpers] Re: Thunderbird question

Hi Re-Na (and anyone else living on the brink of disaster by storing 
important mail in the inbox of any email program)

In all email programs, it's a very good idea to use the inbox like you 
use a physical mailbox in the real word, in other words don't store mail 
in it. Instead, make a new inbox storage folder and move all mail there 
regularly. The inbox is your email program's folder that is most prone 
to slow or sudden corruption and most at risk of being deleted by a 
virus or (much more likely) by a misbehaving antivirus program. This is 
a much bigger and much more real threat than all the malware of the 
world combined, as explained here:
www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

>> E:  If the above sounds like too much work, the easiest way to get rid of
>> the problem is to turn off automatic compacting and do it manually once
>> a day when you don't need TB. See
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders for
>> details.
>> Remember to do it for each account. If you don't want to do it once a
>> day, do it at least once a week, in which case it will take longer than
>> when done once a day.
>>   
> Ok, I'll play that by ear and see if I need to do that after I make 
> these changes.

If you notice any even minor strange behavior with automatic compacting 
even after making archive folders, you can try to find a possibly 
corrupted folder by compacting one folder at a time instead of all 
folders in an account at once.




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