A Programmer wrote:
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.

I back it up with one three clicks. See:

http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx

Free.

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.

You can have as many messages as you want as long as each .dbx file
doesn't exceed 100 MB.

Do not archive messages in the default folders such as Inbox, Sent Items
or Deleted Items. Create new folders under Local Folders for archiving.

Alias