victor levadi wrote: > Parish, > > You were RIGHT ON!!!! > > Many thanks for the education, and thanks for taking the time. >
You are welcome. Glad to be of help, but what exactly was the problem? > v > > Parish wrote: > >> victor levadi wrote: >> > The first thing that I tried was deleting the inbox.snm file. In the past, >> > Netscape would regenerate the file. Today the program reads the inbox file, >> > but apparently only recognizes that one message at the end. Additional >> > messages can be added at the end of that file. Removing the new messages >> > leaves a very large file will all the old messages in it, but Netscape >> > doesn't recognize them. >> > >> > Any suggestions? My last resort is to get a definition of the file format >> > and see if that will provide enough information to repair the file. >> > >> >> Have all the messages that have disappeared re-appeared in your Trash >> folder? >> >> I'm wondering if you've somehow deleted them all. When you delete a >> message it just gets *flagged* as deleted and copied to Trash - the >> message still exists in your Inbox. >> >> Open your Inbox in an editor (make a backup copy first) and look for >> lines beginning ``X-Mozilla-Status:'' >> >> I don't know all the codes, but 0000 = unread, 0001 = read, 0009 = deleted. >> >> BTW, if you edit the file and save it make sure you delete the index file. >> >> As to the file format it is Unix mbox, i.e. plain text, just think of >> the problems you'd have if it was in Outlook's proprietry binary format! >> >> HTH >> >> Regards, >> >> Parish >> HTH >> >> > Any help will be appreciated >> > >> > vic >> > >> > victor levadi wrote: >> > >> >> I have a very large mail file in 4.7, which Netscape has stopped >> >> displaying. I must have been careless in moving the file. There are more >> >> than a thousand messages in this file, and I want to be able to keep >> >> them in the Netscape mail file system with all of the other filed >> >> messages. I could write a script to extract all of the messages and >> >> header info, but that won't allow me to file the messages in the >> >> Nestcape file system. >> >> >> >> I have looked at the file and I can see no obvious irregularity. The >> >> file begins with "From - " and ends with OA OD .OA OD. Netscape appears >> >> to read the file, but not display it in the Inbox window. One new >> >> message was received and netscape appended it to the file. This new >> >> message is displayed. >> >> >> >> Can someone enlighten me about the format for the mail file so that I >> >> can patch the current file, even if it means losing a message at the >> >> beginning or end, although both ends of the file look "clean", before >> >> and after Netscape added the new message. I've tried taking one or two >> >> individual messages from the large file, but can't get them to display. >> >> Can someone tell me where to get the specs for the inbox file? >> >> >> >> I'm overlooking something, and I need help ASAP. >> >> >> >> Vic >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Software is like sex, it's better when it's free -Linus Torvalds > > -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free -Linus Torvalds
