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
Alan,
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?
--
Mark
