>> Don't know if anyone is still lurking on this list.
It takes no effort to leave a mailing list link in place!
>> But I'm still on OS 9
So am I, but "9" is for many purposes a bit vague. There were practical
differences between the 9.0.*s, the 9.1.*s, and the 9.2.*s, not least being
the fact that some popular applications broke as you moved up. Not all
applications were upgraded for the newer versions of OS 9. Some companies
preferred to leapfrog to OS X, and others left the Apple world altogether.
There is still a significant group of technically capable people who are on
versions of 9.*.* with serious applications for which there are still no
equivalents in OS X. You don't see them on this list since OE is not a
serious production application for mail.
I'm currently on an iBook with 9.2.2.
>> and have [] OE 5.02 ...
I use MS OE5.0.2 every day as my mailer. And I have MS IE5.1.7 as my third
choice for browser after iCab and Wamcom Mozilla.
Those versions of OE and IE were the last ones that you can expect to be OK
for just about everybody. Microsoft issued what they called "security
upgrades" for OE and IE which for some people were disastrously incompatible
with other applications.
A few months ago, having a technical problem with OE5.0.2 and having
forgotten about the agonised reports, I installed OE5.0.6. It promptly
interfered so extensively with the system and other MS applications that
Word98/Excel98 crashed every time they were launched, and I had some
nerve-racking hours booted from a CD doing wholesale surgery to restore
Office and system files from a backup copy of my boot partition and to
return to OE5.0.2. Without the backup copy (on an external FireWire hard
disk) and the CD for booting into OS 9, recovery by me would have been
impossible.
On the other hand, Udo has not had any such problems and suggested, as
others have done from time to time,
> You might try upgrading to OE 5.06 which is the last version which runs under
> Mac OS 9.0. I'm using it with Mac OS 8.6 and I haven't encountered the problem
> you describe (yet).
My advice would be that if you have Office 98, don't go beyond 5.0.2.
If you get a lot of mail and a lot of attachments and you never delete
anything, then you might have problems
- of sheer size (unlikely)
- of creeping disorganisation within the large single file that holds
all your messages and attachments (likely).
Check the size of
Documents:Microsoft User Data:Identities:Main Identity:Messages
If it's approaching 2000 MB, start deleting stuff, or at least start
dragging copies of big messages out to ordinary folders and deleting the
copies in OE.
And if it's months since you offered an internal reorganisation (tidying up)
of the data files, launch OE with the Alt/Option key held down, answer "yes"
when asked whether you want to "Compact", and when it's all done, delete the
old versions of Messages, Database, and Database Cache from
Documents:Microsoft User Data:Identities:Main Identity:
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