[newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
There are no junk controls set. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the mozilla companents from the CD's since this problem occured. I have just managed to use my parents Windows machine to read my email via webmail. After reading it, I decided to download the odd 4x messages I had selected to keep. I started kpp, logged on using my fresh install of Mozilla mail and waited to see the messages appear. Alas all I saw was the number received going up but no messages appearing in te Inbox or the subfolders. So now it brings me to a total of 190 unseen messages that I have been unable to read because a 'stable' release of Mozilla Mail supplied on the installation CD's doesn't work like it should!!! Considering I am expecting at least 5 VERY important messages regarding my pending employment, this shit doesn't go down well! I ask the question again, Where ie which folder etc/ether are my UNREAD messages that I have downloaded over the last 2 days? Can they be recovered so that I can read them or should I just give up on something I have supported for over a year, linux, and move onto a more 'stable' and user friendly system like Windows. Where can I find information on what happened to the downloaded messages? sorry for the rant but i am REALLY pissed off with linux/s right now. I am unemployed and really need the work one of those emails could have been about. I cannot afford to have my machine looked at by an 'expert' linux fundi coz I can't afford it, period. Your help is appreciated and I'll try to get the 9.2 release tomorrow hoping it will fix the mail error. Somehow though I don't think so as not even an uninstall and reinstall of the current version helped. -- Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using Linux Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: There are no junk controls set. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the mozilla companents from the CD's since this problem occured. I have just managed to use my parents Windows machine to read my email via webmail. After reading it, I decided to download the odd 4x messages I had selected to keep. I started kpp, logged on using my fresh install of Mozilla mail and waited to see the messages appear. Alas all I saw was the number received going up but no messages appearing in te Inbox or the subfolders. So now it brings me to a total of 190 unseen messages that I have been unable to read because a 'stable' release of Mozilla Mail supplied on the installation CD's doesn't work like it should!!! Considering I am expecting at least 5 VERY important messages regarding my pending employment, this shit doesn't go down well! I ask the question again, Where ie which folder etc/ether are my UNREAD messages that I have downloaded over the last 2 days? Can they be recovered so that I can read them or should I just give up on something I have supported for over a year, linux, and move onto a more 'stable' and user friendly system like Windows. Where can I find information on what happened to the downloaded messages? sorry for the rant but i am REALLY pissed off with linux/s right now. I am unemployed and really need the work one of those emails could have been about. I cannot afford to have my machine looked at by an 'expert' linux fundi coz I can't afford it, period. Your help is appreciated and I'll try to get the 9.2 release tomorrow hoping it will fix the mail error. Somehow though I don't think so as not even an uninstall and reinstall of the current version helped. I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command line, use the command ls -a (without the quotes, of course) rather than plain ls. Inside that directory, there will be a directory for each of your profiles. change to that and you'll see a directory with an incomprehensible name like ivj8x58h.slt. Inside that is your Mail directory which contains your Inbox and any other mail folders you have created. These are stored as humungous text files, so just open the apropriate one in a text editor like Kwrite and use Find with a word that's likely to be in the mail you're looking for. Tedious, I know, but useful for emergencies like this. BTW, I always set Mozilla Mail to only delete messages on the server when I delete them in Mozilla - that way any mail I don't delete is safely sitting on the server (this feature is also very useful if you're connecting from more than one computer - in fact it's the main reason why I use Mozilla rather than KMail). Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command line, use the command ls -a (without the quotes, of course) rather than plain ls. Inside that directory, there will be a directory for each of your profiles. change to that and you'll see a directory with an incomprehensible name like ivj8x58h.slt. Inside that is your Mail directory which contains your Inbox and any other mail folders you have created. These are stored as humungous text files, so just open the apropriate one in a text editor like Kwrite and use Find with a word that's likely to be in the mail you're looking for. Tedious, I know, but useful for emergencies like this. BTW, I always set Mozilla Mail to only delete messages on the server when I delete them in Mozilla - that way any mail I don't delete is safely sitting on the server (this feature is also very useful if you're connecting from more than one computer - in fact it's the main reason why I use Mozilla rather than KMail). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Either that, or you can copy and paste everything from Linux in the mail folder of your Mozilla profile. Onto a disk/cd-r or a windows based partition and move it over to a windows based computer/OS. Simply Place the files that you copied over in a fresh profile of mozilla following the directions from the previous poster above. The profiles work and act _ALMOST_ exactly the same between the two operating systems. So if you have a dual booting system you can share the same profile if needed. So it should work if the messages are actually there. Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
