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| Thread ID: 32261 | 2003-04-14 00:25:00 | Can attachments from deleted emails still be a Virus threat? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 135567 | 2003-04-14 22:30:00 | Here we go, I found it. :-) insideoe.tomsterdam.com OE has an automatic maintenance feature that is enabled by default. It is designed to wait until OE has been idle for several minutes, and then begin to compact your mail and news folders in the background. The options to control this are found under Tools| Options| Maintenance. Those options are for newsgroup files, by the way, and not for mail folders. Also, the option to "delete messages after xx days" refers only to message bodies, not to message headers. OE will delete old news headers only when they are removed from the server. However, I cannot recommend using this automatic tool. If your computer should crash, or your phone line drop, or your power supply be interrupted while OE is busily compacting files, the result can be truly ugly. The entire message store can become corrupt, meaning you could lose all your mail messages. Furthermore, many people notice a serious drop in their computer's performance each time the background compaction begins. I strongly suggest you turn this feature off right now by removing the check mark for "Compact messages in the background." Umm, sorry Billy, this is a bit off-topic I know, but I figured it was kind of relevant. :8} |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 135568 | 2003-04-14 23:35:00 | good post there S,really helpful. | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 135569 | 2003-04-15 12:03:00 | Hi Susan I come here to learn in the main and help if I can . Respect is nice but not actively sought, sentiments accepted . Thanks for the site . I have used both manual & auto for compacting in OE6 earlier ver were all manual . I didn't do the manual way because I knew about the issues discussed on link you provided tho . Checkmark disposed of and Clean Up Now button the way to go from now on . Is there any specific reason why deleted messages are treated in this way? I would have thought that once you had placed something in your deleted items folder then gone to the trouble to remove it from there it, should be gone to the point of forensic recovery only . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 135570 | 2003-04-15 12:11:00 | In Mozilla and NS compact the folders after deletion and they are gone. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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