I ran a test on the RAM, CPU, and HDD to look for hardware problems but
nothing has came up.
Did you used to get a warning when you were close to the 4GB limit?
Something like:
"The folder Inbox is too large to add messages to. Try deleting old mail and compacting the folder."
We put up that warning if you're within 1 MB of 4GB, and try to download
mail or copy mail into a folder. Do you receive more than 1MB of mail at
a time?
I don't know why a folder would be wiped out, but I don't know why a
Core 2 Duo processor would cause a problem like this, though we have
seen some weird problems with multi-processor machines.
- David
Also, before the loss, I had created an account with same everything but
the name of the account. (except It would not let me have the same smtp
server.)
I'm on a Mac OS X core duo 2 gb mem.
From about box: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US;
rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Grumble.
/b
In this case I was emptying old accounts so I probably receieved around
20GB of mail that day and as each transfer does around 200-300 messages
I'd guess that each transfer is around 100MB. It all goes into the INBOX
and then is filtered out into folders. It's not unusual for me to
receive a 1000+ messages a day and often I have attachments in messages
I receive so I'm going to guess that I often transfer more than 1MB of
files at a time.
I know that it isn't unusual for me to have to fetchmail my mail from
the server if I've been gone a couple days because some of my POP/IMAP
srvers won't transfer my build-up mail to Thunderbird if there is more
than a gig or so waiting. (fetchmail works leading me to think this is a
Thunderbird issue. Is there a way to only download 50 messages at a time
with Thunderbird?)
I don't know that it's the dual core processor but thought it worth
mentioning since so many apps, mostly Windows apps, have issues since I
upgraded the processor.
Any suggestions on how I can be sure not to wipe out any more of my
mail? Thanks.
In this case I was emptying old accounts so I probably receieved around
20GB of mail that day and as each transfer does around 200-300 messages
I'd guess that each transfer is around 100MB. It all goes into the INBOX
and then is filtered out into folders. It's not unusual for me to
receive a 1000+ messages a day and often I have attachments in messages
I receive so I'm going to guess that I often transfer more than 1MB of
files at a time.
I know that it isn't unusual for me to have to fetchmail my mail from
the server if I've been gone a couple days because some of my POP/IMAP
srvers won't transfer my build-up mail to Thunderbird if there is more
than a gig or so waiting. (fetchmail works leading me to think this is a
Thunderbird issue. Is there a way to only download 50 messages at a time
with Thunderbird?)
I don't know that it's the dual core processor but thought it worth
mentioning since so many apps, mostly Windows apps, have issues since I
upgraded the processor.
Any suggestions on how I can be sure not to wipe out any more of my
mail? Thanks.
> Michael,
- David