On 20 Feb 2018, at 7:13, Roger Bohn wrote:
HOWEVER, when I select “Do nothing,” I get stuck in an infinite
loop. When MM restarts, I get the same choices. There is NO WAY TO
AVOID REBUILDING. This is clearly a bug. Why give a choice if it
cannot be used?
The option is to “do nothing after relaunching MailMate”. There is
no option to just keep on running MailMate. When MailMate is in an
inconsistent state then that would be very risky. It could result, e.g.,
in the loss of emails. At the very least, it would likely quickly result
in a crash.
I appreciate MM trying to maintain the integrity of my data, but this
is a case where I am willing to lose a few messages in order to avoid
the risk of a rebuilding.
Unfortunately there is no way for MailMate to know if the problem
involves a few messages or all of your messages.
What should I do if this happens again?
I'm afraid you'll have to do the rebuild.
But please note what the error message is and what happened before
MailMate got into this state. Anything which might be relevant. I'm very
rarely contacted when users do a rebuild and I know almost nothing about
what can trigger it. I only know that restoring MailMate from a backup
can result in a corrupted database, because MailMate cannot control in
what order the files were copied to the backup.
“Regular” crashes should, at least in theory, not result in a
corrupted database, because in that case MailMate knows how to roll back
to the most recent consistent state on disk.
(I haven't had a database corruption event myself for quite a few
years.)
--
Benny
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