Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / September 2005

I'm using Eudora 6.2.3 (ad version) and starting about 2-3 weeks ago
whenever I would retrieve mail, Eudora would become "busy" for several
minutes... sometimes as long as 20 minutes before "In" box updates
displaying new mail. I don't have any idea what Eudora is doing... other
than a guess that Eudora is "analyzing" the contents of the database
somehow because the disk activity indicators I have installed show a
constant disk read with an occasional write.

In the past couple of days sometimes the new mail would display in the
"In" box immediately, other times it would take a few minutes (as
described above) and then a couple of days ago the "analyzing" had not
completed 45 minutes after I retrieved mail. Eventually I "Force-Quit"
Eudora. When I relaunched, the only thing I noticed was that one email
in the "In" Box was displaying a "question mark" in the status column
and was appearing about a year off in the sort order ie: displayed at
9/20/2005 instead of its actual date of 9/16/2004.

A couple of evenings ago I retrieved email and after retrieval was
complete, Eudora started "analyzing" the new mail. I left the room 2
hours later and Eudora was still "analyzing". When I came back this
morning, Eudora was still "analyzing". Then when I had to leave, I put
the PB in sleep mode and when I awakened PB, Eudora continued
"analyzing". During morning I put PB into sleep mode a couple of more
times and each time I awakened it, Eudora continued "analyzing".

Late that afternoon I decided to "Force-Quit" Eudora again... I had
tried several times to "Quit" with cmd-Q... the File Menu would "color"
but Eudora kept "analyzing" and would not Quit. Interestingly... when I
re-launched Eudora it continued "analyzing" and all controls were
inactive except "Hide". The only way I could get Eudora to "Quit" was to
"Force-Quit". I did this several more times but as of this writing...
which is almost 72 hours later, Eudora is still "analyzing".

What the heck is going on? Supposing that I ever get this thing
stopped... what do I fix? Are there any tools/applications to repair the
Eudora's database... if that's even anything that I need to do?

1gig TiBook w/1gig RAM running Panther 10.3.9.

I hope some of you can help me figure out whatever is happening... Jim