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I use Eudora 6.2 via IMAP with mail.msu.edu and it is pretty much trouble-free. We use Eudora throughout the department, mostly via POP, and the handful of IMAP users have no more trouble than the POP users. However, we have noticed an increase in the number of crashes in the last six months for many of our POP users of Eudora 6.0-6.2. The crashes typically cause an exception error either while mail is being received or immediately after that, while the received mail is being processed. Eudora closes because of the error and then when it is restarted, it reports that the table of contents for the In box is damaged and has to be rebuilt. We have sent detailed information to Qualcomm about this, but have not received useful help. One of these users was running 6.0.x and we upgraded his to 6.2 specifically to see if it would fix the problem, and it did not. I'm pretty certain we have never seen a case of disappearing messages such as you describe, and I would strongly suspect some sort of user error. Does your Director have any custom filters defined in Eudora? At home I use Outlook Express 6 via IMAP to mail.msu.edu, and I see somewhat more anomalies with it than with Eudora, although they are still minor. At 04:36 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote: >Are there any happy users of Eudora 6.2 and IMAP at mail.msu.edu ? > >I use Eudora 6.2 with our own IMAP server, but we don't have good spam filtering, and perhaps never will. Our Director needs better spam filtering, so I suggested she get her mail through the main campus server. But she keeps experiencing problems, the latest of which is a folder full of JUNK messages disappearing just before she had a chance to move them to another mailbox. She had verified their presence via webmail just before they disappeared. > >Anyhow, I just now learned about esoteric.epi and eudora.log which I'm hoping we can use to pinpoint these things more precisely. But I'm wondering if there really is a large base of happy Eudora 6.2 users of IMAP at MSU, or if we should not expect it to be trouble-free. Our Director probably stresses the system a little more than some people would. She regularly accesses her mail from two different computers. A week or so ago I suggested that she be very conscious of when her Eudora is fired up on both computers simultaneously, and she has been taking care to avoid that circumstance since then. > >John Gorentz >W.K. Kellogg Biological Station --Chris ============================================== Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] Michigan State University 517 353-5017