I figured out a workaround for my ISP's braindead WebMail keeping the "From:" field empty.
On Thu May 10 14:04 , Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Ralph wrote: >> Neil or Gus, this is Ralph . Would you mind >> forwarding this to the list? I can't get the From: field to >> accept any entries so I am certain that the email I just sent >> to the list isn't going to make it. Feel free to send me a >> confirmation message to be sure it's me. You should have my >> email address already. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> I was composing an email when X locked up on me. The clock >> continues to function, and the mouse pointer still moves, but >> the pointer doesn't change according to hover context and >> nothing responds, not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete. Fortunately >> Ctrl-Alt-F6 worked and I managed to figure out how to get a >> second X running on :1 . :0 still displays, but I have a >> navigator window on top and can't get to the email I was >> composing underneath. >> >> The email is not saved, but has got to be in memory somewhere. >> How do I find the temp file? I would really like to keep the >> text of that email. >> >> I'm on FC4. Mozilla version I *think* is 1.7.13 IIRC. >> >> >> ---- Msg sent via CWNet - >> http://www.cwnet.com/ > >Mozilla and Thunderbird both use mbox format files. As part of the >process of creating an e-mail they use a file called Drafts, located >somewhere under the ~/.mozilla directory. I no longer have the Mozilla >suite so I don't know where it is exactly. For Thunderbird it's under >~/.thunderbird/.default/Mail/Local Folders/ ~/.mozilla/default/alphanumeric.slt/Mail/mail.cwnet.com/ But Drafts is too old. It seems that this file is as new as the last time you save a message instead of sending it. The message I'm after has *not* been saved. It resides only in memory. But I figured that in *n*x since "everything is a file"(TM), that place in memory must be accessible somewhere, even if it is read-only by root. I just don't know where to find it. Right now in vim, I am painstakingly going through /ll-aR (generated with "# ll -aR > /ll-aR" from "/") with the search "/^[^dsc].* rafael .* May 10 \(09\|1\)" to find all files generated today since 09:00 up to the generation of the /ll-aR file. TEE-DEE-US! I found nothing of consequence in ~/.mozilla/ , but I'm thinking it might be somewhere in /proc or wherever files in memory can be accessed directly (if possible). > >Try to see if you can find that file. If you are lucky it might contain >your message. There might also be a file that ends in a tilde ~, common >for some temporary files. Check those out also. Nothing there with today's date. In fact, nothing there from this year. ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
