On May 31, 2010, at 9:59 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >> Try rebuilding the mailbox. (Mailbox > Rebuild) Re-installing the system >> does nothing to fix this. > > > Rebuild fixed it but it sure is a wierd ting it seemed to take forever to do > anything. No progress indication and then after about 15 mins it was all > there.:-) What does rebuild do? does it show progress while it's working?
What you see in your Inbox (at least the top pane) is actually not your mail, but an index of that mail. As mail is delivered, read, moved, or deleted, that index is altered to reflect the current state of your mail store. These indexes can get out of sync or corrupted (they're being written to almost all the time so any sort of hiccup that affects disk io or power can mess them up.) This happens more often with IMAP indices than POP in my experience, but in both case the fix is simple, just trash the index file and rebuild it by scanning all your mail. The size of the mailbox will directly affect how long it takes, obviously. To see what's going on, and get an indication of the activity, open the Activity window in Mail. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
