Thunderbird Contamination

[Jim]

Steven Stern wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks much for the info.

Jim