Netscape 4.74 appears to contain a bug in the mail filter configuration function.
I have experienced this, when an exception is thrown by the calling of the mail
filters dialog. The error specifically relates to an invalid parameter in the child
process when calling the dialog.
The only fix I have time for is to deinstall the rpm, and reinstall.
Pierre Fortin wrote:
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > Mark Weaver wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Might someone on here have any idea what could be causing Netscape to corrupt
> > > its mailrule file?
> > [snip]
> >
> > Mark....I'm using 4.74 and have not had any such problems with
> > it. But I did have problems with the message filters (I guess
> > this is what you mean by a mailrule file) getting screwed up
> > (I actually lost all of the rules completely) a few releases
> > of Netscape back. What seemed to cure it for me was this.
> >
> > I noticed that the corruption/loss seemed to occur when I was
> > cutting (actually copying) info from messages and pasting this
> > info into a filter (either into a new one or editing an old
> > one). So, I quit cutting (copying) and pasting when creating
> > and maintaining filters and the problem stopped. Hope this
> > helps.
> >
> > Alan
>
> You can copy/paste if you remember to delete the whitespace that NS puts in
> front of the pasted text; this can include a newline character. At worst, edit
> the mailrule file with your favorite text editor and look for a wrapped
> "condition=" line... remove the linewrap & unnecessary whitespace and save it.
> No need to restart Netscape.
>
> HTH,
> Pierre
>
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