Vista - Interesting mail situation-maybe like ghost mail

I have two hard drives, one with XP and one with Vista. I change the bios
to boot to whichever one I want, and I just noticed something a little
strange. I had booted to and was running XP. I had the mail client open,
in this case Thunderbird, and got a new mail notice. No mail to be found in
the account suggested or any other mail account. Strange, so I rebooted
into Vista 5744 and low and behold, there was my mail message. I knew it
was the same one, because I had sent it and I knew what time.

Why would mail delivered when XP was active be placed into an inbox on the
Vista drive. If you are wondering, no I did not get a new mail alert when I
started the e-mail client in Vista. The message was just there.

Maybe this is related to the ghost messages folks keep talking about. I am
going to take the Vista hard drive out and just run the XP one and see if
things return to normal.

Clark

That's not a ghost message issue, that's a ghost in the machine issue.

steve

"Clark" <who@whoknows.com> wrote in message
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>I have two hard drives, one with XP and one with Vista. I change the bios
>to boot to whichever one I want, and I just noticed something a little
>strange. I had booted to and was running XP. I had the mail client open,
>in this case Thunderbird, and got a new mail notice. No mail to be found
>in the account suggested or any other mail account. Strange, so I rebooted
>into Vista 5744 and low and behold, there was my mail message. I knew it
>was the same one, because I had sent it and I knew what time.
>
> Why would mail delivered when XP was active be placed into an inbox on
> the Vista drive. If you are wondering, no I did not get a new mail alert
> when I started the e-mail client in Vista. The message was just there.
>
> Maybe this is related to the ghost messages folks keep talking about. I
> am going to take the Vista hard drive out and just run the XP one and see
> if things return to normal.
>
> Clark