Related to backing up.... I'd like to diverge a bit to point out an
advantage of The Bat! over some other email programs (partly for
Katsmeow's benefit): The attachments are stored separately from the
messages, in their own folder.
When I back up The Bat!, I just back up the MAIL folder, not the
ATTACHMENTS folder. In most cases, I've already copied attachments
somewhere else and if they were worth backing up, I probably have
backed them up where I saved them -- for instance, as part of files
for a given project.
When I don't have to back up all the megabytes of attachments, my
backup process goes much faster and doesn't require *nearly* as much
disk space. By contrast, Pegasus Mail and a number of other email
programs store attachments with messages, and your mail folders can
grow huge just because of having big attachments.
Orson
Saturday, July 15, 2000, 8:46 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Mitch,
>> And, back to my original question: is there anything I can do FROM
>> WITHIN THE BAT! to prevent future message losses? Anything I can
>> do to recover the three weeks of messages which are no longer
>> showing up in my mailbox, but which (fingers crossed) might still
>> be hidden somewhere in my mail archive?
> What I do is to leave mail on server for one day, and I backup my
> mail (in fact, all my data) to my CDRW on a daily basis. Should
> anything goes wrong, I restore yesterday's mail base, and
> re-retrieve all mail since last backup via mail dispatcher.
> If you don't do backup (you should), the safest way that can be done
> purely within TB is to setup a backup account (which share the same
> POP3 settings with your main account). Check the "leave mail on
> server" (for x days, if you don't want it there forever) option in
> both accounts. You don't need to recreate all the folders and
> filters for the backup account. All mail is left in the Inbox.
> Should the main account loose mail, you restore the lost part from
> the backup account. To save space, you may setup the Inbox for the
> backup account to hold mail for x days only, and the x-day's worth
> of mail would be the insurance you have.
> Still, backup often is my top recommendation. With that, you don't
> loose any sleep (except maybe staying up for the restore job)
> however badly your computer or any application screws up.
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