Thunderbird Contamination

[Jim]

Steven Stern wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> FC 8 , Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
>>>
>>> I have a friend that has about 300-400 old email messages laying in 
>>> his inbox of Thunderbird and when he tries to read
>>> New emails they are mixed in with old ones and some of them are 
>>> blank, it just a big box of sh-t .
>>> I removed his emails and AddressBook from Thunderbird, and deleted 
>>> and reinstalled his AddressBook and old emails
>>> back into the new Thunderbird , everything was working for a few 
>>> hours and then here we go again.
>>> Are there Viruses that affect  strictly  Email  Browsers  like  this ??
>>> This always seems like that he goes through this everytime he gets a 
>>> large amount of Emails stored  in his Inbox.
>>>
>>
>> As you kept the mbox's, have you tried to compact the boxes?
>>
>> I have email going back years on my box with TB and I don't have an 
>> issues over multiple version updates.  I do know that if I don't 
>> compact, then I have issues.
>>
>> I am using Fetchexe to get my mail off the Exchange server and if I 
>> don't compact the mailbox it goes to, after moving the mail, then the 
>> mail will reappear.
>>
>> Compact would be the same as Evolutions expunge in my books.
>
> delete the .msf files for those mailboxes. These are index files that 
> have gone corrupt. Tbird will rebuild the file next time you view the 
> mailbox.
>
The .msf files are the emails, you would be deleting  all your emails  ??
How about having about 300-400 emails laying in your inbox, wouldn't 
that cause problems ??