Mark Weaver wrote:
[snip]
>
> that is exactly what I was doing. In fact, strangely enough it started
> happening when I was setting up a filter I affectionately call the
> twit-list to filter Mallard and his cohort Bill. :) odd, huh? For what
> ever reason Netscape is doing this what you said makes sense. What do
> you supposed is causing Netscape to behave this way when performing
> this?
[snip]
Mark....I did an experiment and corrupted my mailrules file
purposely by using copy/paste. Then I opened it in a text
editor and visually scanned it for any oddities.
I found that the corruption was (it was easy to find as it was
the filter I'd edited using copy/paste that was corrupted) a
linefeed followed by a bunch of spaces. Removing the linefeed
and the following spaces fixed the file so that it was again
recognisible by netscape messenger (no error message).
For some reason, when copy/pasting from the To:, From:, Reply
To:, etc. fields in netscape messenger's messages the paste
function adds extra linefeeds and spaces to the text you are
pasting. That's as close to a reason as I can get. :-)
Alan
