[X Newbies] HUUUGE Bug in Apple Mail

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 3:02p +0100 2003/01/05, Grégoire Seither wrote:
>I have finally managed to pin down the Bug in Apple Mail :
>
>- <snip>...
>- <snip>...
>- <snip>...
>- Click OK
>- Close Preferences

>If your Mac is like mine (G4 EMac running 10.2.3) then all the 
>messages in your InBox will have disappeared - "poooof". And they 
>are gone forever.

On a list for "Newbies", it would be best to preface instructions of 
this type with some warnings and disclaimers. Fortunately, it seems 
that the "bug" isn't easily reproducible by others...
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