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From: Randall Allen on 31 May 2007 20:43
Bob,

Thanks for the tips. I went in about that same direction with no
luck. I didn't have the familiar repair option on this machine
because my XP Pro disk was an upgrade disk. But, I "upgraded" over
the previous installation. The symptoms are the same except Eudora
thinks it is in the sponsored mode right now. It still reports the
error even though I've searched the accounts and such for any buffers
it might want to reprocess.

I installed a SMART disk monitor. It says the disk is fine and of
course I had checked for errors and defragged it to see if working in
a difference place made a difference.

AVG is not installed right now since my servers perform virus checking
anyway. If the cause is ever known it will be a subtle problem.

I'm wondering if it has a configuration problem that did not appear
until something else occurred.

On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:40:54 -0700, Bob Smith <na6t(a)na6t.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:39:52 -0500, Randall Allen
><allen_randall(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>A few days ago one of my computers started reporting errors with each
>>message. For a couple of days Eudora claimed too many files were
>>open. That stopped when the behavior worsened. I renamed the
>>Attachments folder and removed duplicates in the Embedded folder.
>>Another machine collects the same data stream with no problems.
>>
>>Messages do come in, but their contents and attachments are missing.
>>The error sequence for each message is as follows:
>>
>>Could not open file {garbaged name} for writing
>>Request contains an invalid argument.
>>
>>Could not open file for writing
>>Cause: No such file or directory exists (2)
>>
>>Could not read from file
>>Cause: File or device is read only or no longer open (9)
>>
>>Could not delete file
>>File or device is read only or file no longer open (9)
>>
>>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>
>I had a similar problem with AVG Free at a clients home. Everything
>was working correctly but all of a sudden he started receiving E-mails
>without attachments, without embedded pictures, without hyperlinks,
>etc. Everything was stripped, just the written part of the email was
>viewable.
>
>I contacted AVG forums and found no help. So, I tried the 'old try
>and true method', I did a repair install with Windows XP Pro. After
>the repair install was completed and all updates installed everything
>worked perfectly, all the attachments were being recieved, embedded,
>urls, eveything,.
>
>Like I said, I couldn't find anything from AVG and nothing on google,
>etc, so I did the std fix, and it fixed the problem..
>
>Bob Smith
>Robert Smith consulting
From: Randall Allen on 31 May 2007 20:48
On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:59:32 -0500, "John H Meyers"
<jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:

All good thoughts....
>
>Purely random thoughts, FWIW:
>
>Is that a "null" mailbox name?

Don't think so.

>Did AVG leave a Eudora plugin in either your programs or data folder?

I renamed any artifact folders so they couldn't be found.

>Do you also use Zone Alarm, or is their any other anti-virus product
>simultaneously installed?

Just Zone Alarm by itself. I hear their current AV tool is a huge
performance problem. I tried it anyway, and it was.

>Wishing Eudora a speedy recovery, from whatever ails it.

Me too! I would like to get back to my original annoyances like not
focusing on the most recent message in a mailbox and never marking a
message read. I could live with those problems.
From: John H Meyers on 31 May 2007 23:16
On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:48:19 -0500, Randall Allen wrote:

> AVG... Zone Alarm...

The only sure way to test whether these contribute to the problem
would be to turn them off for a bit, while Eudora is the only
program in use (and with "use MS viewer" disabled).

Files modified by Eudora will be in the mail data folder,
so one can always do an AV scan afterwards, on that folder;
one also has a Windows firewall (XP or later) to fall back on,
while giving ZA a rest.

If it's a Windows fault, then of course it won't go away
until Windows gets fixed. It's most unfortunate that
we don't have those Star Trek devices which you just
wave over something, and they tell you exactly
what's wrong, where it is, and how to fix it :)

--
From: Randall Allen on 2 Jun 2007 11:58
Well,

There has been progress.

After "uprading" XP over itself nothing changed except some thing such
as ZoneAlarm and AVG quit working. That wasn't much of an issue from
the testing perspective. Anyway, Eudora continued to misbehave. After
a bit I decided to reinstall an older version (6.X) of Eudora to see
if that altered the behavior in any way. It did. Eudora complained
about the AVG kernal, but the message was garbled. After that one
complaint, it started downloading messages normally.

That created a bit of a dilema with respect to the system. AVG didn't
want to reinstall, presumably due to an artifact from the previous
installation. I'm doing an image restore from a couple of weeks ago,
which has been underway for about 8 hours. After that is finished,
I'll reinstall the older version of Eudora to see what happens.

On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:16:38 -0500, "John H Meyers"
<jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:48:19 -0500, Randall Allen wrote:
>
>> AVG... Zone Alarm...
>
>The only sure way to test whether these contribute to the problem
>would be to turn them off for a bit, while Eudora is the only
>program in use (and with "use MS viewer" disabled).
>
>Files modified by Eudora will be in the mail data folder,
>so one can always do an AV scan afterwards, on that folder;
>one also has a Windows firewall (XP or later) to fall back on,
>while giving ZA a rest.
>
>If it's a Windows fault, then of course it won't go away
>until Windows gets fixed. It's most unfortunate that
>we don't have those Star Trek devices which you just
>wave over something, and they tell you exactly
>what's wrong, where it is, and how to fix it :)
From: Randall Allen on 4 Jun 2007 19:41
Well, the culprit is identified.

It is Grisoft's AVG product. I've used it for years with no problem.
But around the end of April the problem started on only one of my
machines. After upgrading XP Pro again (repair option missing), I
downloaded several thousand e-mail messages before I shut Eudora down
to reinstall AVG. It had been lost in the upgrade. As soon as Eudora
started working again, The problem repeated itself. Turning it off
made no difference. I uninstalled AVG and finished downloading my
mail with no problem. Now I have to pick a replacement virus scanner.

On Sat, 19 May 2007 22:09:07 GMT, Randall Allen
<allen_randall(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>I'm finally able to look into this further. Eudora continues to be
>unable to write files appropriately, but it does write RCV fines in
>the SPOOL directory as it errors in processing the incoming messages.
>These appear to be legitimate message contents. Any further ideas?
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