[Macpartners] Possible Problem with Mail and 10.3.9

[Helen Rose]

On Apr 20, 2005, at 15:12, Roger A. Roach wrote:

> Since installing 10.3.9 on my Mac (G4 17" Powerbook), I have been 
> having some problems with Apple Mail.  About 1 out of 10 times when I 
> try to read some mail, it opens a window and then spins its wheel for 
> about 30 seconds and then tells me:
>
> The message from XXX concerning “YYY” has not been downloaded from the 
> server. You need to take this account online in order to download it.
>
> Trying it again always gets the mail right away.  I'm wondering if 
> this may be a problem with the changes made to Mail or with our 
> postoffice (I am on PO12).
>
> Anyone else experience this?

I am NOT running 10.3.9 (still at 10.3.8, out of paranoia for java 
issues) and saw this error message this morning. I had one message in a 
local (non-IMAP) mailbox that returned this error message. The account 
was already online. I was unable to retrieve the message. I'm on PO11.

Lucky for me, I knew what was in the message (nightly run output from a 
FreeBSD machine). I would feel very upset if this message were 
something critical where I did not know the content.

--Helen