Hi, everyone, Can you help me figure out why a networked computer is unable to open my primary account's inbox?
Here is my setup: Two computers, both running XP Pro, are on a local wireless network (802.11b). The desktop is connected to the router by an ethernet cable while the laptop is connected wirelessly. The Bat's mail files reside on the desktop and enabled for full file sharing on Windows Explorer. The files are accessed by users of both the desktop and the laptop. Thus it is possible for the laptop user to download, read, write, and delete any e-mail. I have twelve e-mail accounts, coming from three different mail servers: gmail, a private domain, and my ISP's server. Because of the 60 ft, two-floor, distance between the laptop and the router (which cannot be moved), the laptop's connection to the network is slow, but it does work. This setup has worked fine for about five months. FWIW, the entire desktop is backed up on an external hard drive, nightly. Three full backups are on the external hard drive (full file backups, not imaged). However, increasingly, in recent weeks, the laptop occasionally fails to open up the inbox of my primary account which comes through the private domain, even though it can open up the sent and outbox folders as well as all other mailboxes, including those coming from the same server as the inbox of my primary account. On the desktop, this inbox is fully accessible, although, occasionally it will also appear blank-but I have always been able to repair it using the maintenance center. To try and repair the missing e-mail from my primary account's inbox when accessing mail from the laptop I have done the following: On the desktop, I opened up the maintenance center and ran a full repair of the entire Mail directory (checkmarking "check integrity," "remove duplicates," and "compress"). I have tried to do the same on the laptop. However, the maintanance center states for the problematic inbox, "cannot open message base." I have checked the properties for the inbox while using the laptop to confirm that it is the same folder as that accessed by the e-mail client when using the desktop. Can you help me to troubleshoot this further? I don't know if file size has anything to do with this, but the inbox .tbb file is about 397 MB and the entire inbox is about 2.76GB. The entire primary account is 3.02 GB (file size is determined by right clicking on the folder in Windows Explorer and going to "properties." The file size listings from within The Bat do not appear to be reliable. Any ideas as to what I can do to fix this? -- Avi Avram Sacks running The Bat ver. 4.0.20 on XP Pro SP2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.1.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
