Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / November 2004

I have been having no end of trouble with Eudora crashing during
delivery of email.  It pulls it off the server, but almost always
takes 30 + mins to actually deliver the email and frequently crashes.
This used to only happen on Mondays (I rarely check mail over the
weekends) or other days when I get a lot of email, but it's started to
happen almost daily and sometimes multiple times during the day.

Support has been less than helpful, especially since they keep
assigning me a Windows support lead and for the brief moment they
brought a developer in, he was a Windows developer that was so
clueless that he couldn't open a standard Apple DiskTools archive and
was insisting that I send "apple crash logs" and not StdLogs (OS X has
a crash log, but all you're going to get with OS 9.x is a MacBugs
StdLog)

Looking at the Eudora logs, I see tons of lines like:

...
MAIN 524296:32.22.0 TOCDates(000007): -43
MAIN 524296:32.25.0 000007 primary toc missing
MAIN 524296:32.25.0 000007 secondary toc missing
...

I have forced compaction of all my mailboxes (which will rebuild the
TOC), turned on "Use old-style .toc files" and forced a rebuild of the
TOCs, turned the setting back off and forced a rebuild, but all to no
avail.  Eudora still becomes unresponsive for far too long, often
crashes during delivery, and floods the logs with tons of "toc
missing" errors.

Ray