[HM] Re: help ---- lost my email!

[Alex]

On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004, at 15:37 Canada/Eastern, Mary C. Youra 
wrote:

> As for the missing emails, they may be gone. [...]

Very likely. Databases get corrupted all the time. The best way to 
minimize loss of data is, (a) regular maintenance, and (b) regular 
backups.

Also, it helps if you use a good e-mail client. One reason to prefer 
Mail.app over the Microsoft alternatives (Entourage, Outlook) is that 
Mail stores messages in mbox files (standard Unix format, which may be 
read by any text editor). Microsoft's proprietary formats are much more 
difficult to manipulate if something goes wrong.

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