[pchelpers] Re: Thunderbird question

Thanks!  I'll follow this advice.
Re-Na
Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> 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
>   
> 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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