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From: Anthony Lawrence <tony@pcunix.com>
Subject: Re: Help!  Jaguar Mail program keeps crashing
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 08:01:55 -0500
References: <BA2BCC1A.4BE6%captnmdnyt@nospamearthlink.net> 

Michael Louden wrote:
> Hey there! 
> 
> I'd really appreciate some help with this.
> 
> I can open the program.  I can send email.  But when I try to receive email,
> it indicates that it's receiving, and when it gets to about the tenth email,
> then in quits "unexpectedly."  And it turns out I didn't receive any mail at
> all.  This has been going on for almost a month, and I can only get my mail
> via webmail.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this?  Can I remove the Mail.App?  And if so, how
> would I go about restoring it?  How could I do so without losing my sent and
> received emails?

I don't know if this even applies to the Jaguar Mail app but I've seen 
exactly this on Windows machines when people let their deleted mail pile 
up without removing it.  So, if you haven't already done that, pull down 
  "Mailbox" and choose "Erase Deleted Messages" and "Rebuild Mailboxes".

The other sloppy habit that leads to grief is keeping everything in your 
Inbox.  I'd try moving everything in the Inbox to other folders if that 
describes you.

BTW, your email is safe in ASCII text files located in 
~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes.  You can copy them elsewhere but that probably 
isn't even necessary.

-- 
Tony Lawrence
Free  Linux Skills Test: http://aplawrence.com/skillstest.html

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