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Re: Centralised database

From	Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: Centralised database
Date	2026-05-05 09:37 +0100
Organization	Frantic
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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:


>> "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> (from eternal-september.support)
>>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, no, no, on the centralized database which I assume will contain
>>>> al email and usenet postings.  The centralized database in Outlook
>>>> would get corrupted all the time which is why we moved from Outlook
>>>> to Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> I see no reason for such a CD to include emails.
>> Outlook doesn't do NNTP (Usenet/newsgroups).
>
> Nope, the problem that we had was with Outlook itself just running
> email.  No usenet, I am the only person using usenet at my business.
>
> We had problems with Outlook crashing and corrupting its email
> database when we were having internet connection problems.  The
> problem was even worse with one user who was using IMAP instead of
> POP.  His Outlook email database was constantly getting corrupted and
> he refused to move to POP at my insistence.  I was using Thunderbird
> and never had a corruption problem, even when our internet connection
> went down while downloading email via POP.
>


> We had problems with Outlook crashing and corrupting its email
> database when we were having internet connection problems.  The

Shouldn't you restore a backup under these circumstances?

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