Thunderbird Contamination

[Steven Stern]

Jim wrote:
> 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 ??
> 
Nope. The .msf files are the indexes. I just wen through this with an 
inbox into which I'd watch mails download then disappear. In any case, 
one should always make a good backup prior to deleting stuff.