On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:59:45 +0200, -Alias- wrote:

Probably, OE was compacting and your friend rebooted in the middle or
had a power failure.

Logical explanation.

Back up is a computer user's best friend.

Which is not easy at all with OE, I've found as well.

When you say "doesn't handle anything past about 300 messages well" do you mean
sending more than 300 messages or storing more than 300 messages?

Storing more than 300 messages. Or maybe had to do with size. The
program in the state I found it to look at was literally unusable and
crashed at the drop of a dime. Then again, he had much more in excess
of 300 messages in it at the time.

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if this guy would hold the record for
biggest OE mailbox (in terms of file size). For what I was contracted
to do at the time (archive old messages and pull them out of the
program), it took me roughly 4 hrs to complete it.