I'm posting this again since it seems my feed's feed wasn't properly
 sending out any mail for the last week or two.  :(

 Nonetheless, I am still looking for advice on this problem.

 Thanks!

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 Hello All!

 Something strange just happened: I got an inbound mail packet,
 Sq386 began tossing it, then linked... and *each* area that it
 tossed too LOST all the mail it used to have in it.

 In other words, one area that HAD 2000 messages now has 28 messages.

 :(

 I think I lost around 4000 messages in total... haven't recovered from
 my shock enough to do the body count.

 Can anyone tell me WHAT THE HECK caused this?  And no, I didn't go delete
 my mail by accident.  According to Norton Utilities' unerase, there are
 also no deleted files in my mail directory.

 In a moment of streamlining, I *did* make the following changes to
 Squish.CFG last night:

 Changed Buffer size from Large to Small

 Changed my bat files so Sq386 runs alone, then Squash runs alone, then
 Link runs alone.  The PRN file indicated this would be good for a low
 memory situation -I am not low on memory, unless I run Sq386 under WFWG
 3.11, and I try to avoid doing that.

 Changed my Config.SYS  Files= statments from 50 to 75

 Squish was working fine until this last batch of mail came in -the second
 load of inbound mail since I made the above changes.  The first batch
 went normally... and the computer has been sitting idle since then.

 It would be really great if anyone can tell me what went wrong.  The idea
 of losing my older mail each time new mail comes in is NOT pleasant.

 My system stats:

 Cyrix 486dlc-33 with 80387 math co-processor
 8 megs ram
 plenty of HD space (about 100 megs free on the drive in question)
 Dos 6.22

 Thanks in advance!

 Patrick
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