I have never had the problem with the count going negative. It's been some time since i had a message hang up Power Mail. However when it did i used my old mail application on netscape 4.7 to get rid of the offending mail. That was the only way i found some relief.
gerry >Discussion of this problem seems to have slowed to a trickle. Does that >mean people have found a workaround, or does it mean that everyone has >learned to live with it? > >I'm finding it more and more annoying. Several times a day PM hits a >message (usually from a Yahoo egroup) which brings up a flashing error >dialog [Class=DB what=2 when=6 err=147]. Opening the offending message >(always blank) results in the minus unread message count. > >The really irritating thing is that PM will continue to try to download >the same message at each pass, and I sometimes return to my computer to >find the error flashing and a dozen or more copies of the same dud >message. The only solution is to go into my POP server with a web >browser, delete the message at source, then run the DB verification check >with PM. The web browser, btw, has no trouble displaying the content of >the message. > > >- Jud - > > > -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
