Over the weekend, my Mail in Tiger started showing that I had 610 messages in my in Box, vs the 2800 or so I really had (ya, don’t harp on me about keeping that many messages in my in Box). The web interface showed the 2800 messages.

I posted a support message to the discussion boards, and some guy mentioned it’s not .Mac’s problem, but a Tiger email problem (which isn’t the case, as I’ve been running with about 2000 messages in my in box for a good 3 years now with no issues).

Now, both the web interface and Mail are showing the 610 messages. I think I just lost about 2200 messages. Which, well isn’t that big a deal, because I kept meaning to clean those out, and I saved the important ones locally on my PowerBook hard drive..

But – it’s going to be really hard to trust .Mac email from now on, you know? If I can lost my oldest 2200 emails, what says I couldn’t lose the last 610 messages? Scary.. it’s the first time ever I’ve thought about switching my email off of .Mac.

Update: It might be my PowerBook. I created a rule to copy all messages to a new folder I created this morning. Tonight when I opened up the PowerBook, the folder in Mail is gone. Weird things like this always suggest to me hardware problems. My disk checks out according to Disk Utility. Thoughts?

Update 2 (3/16/05): I am an idiot. I apologize to Apple and the .Mac team. I had a rule that I was setting up to copy certain messages to a folder after a certain number of days, and I had somehow screwed that up, because I just found the 2200 messages in a folder. Sigh.