(This is getting to be kind of a hard thread to follow, with some
posters' posts showing up right away, and others days later. Mine
always seem to take days--is this perhaps a partially-moderated list?)
At 04:24 PM 9/5/98 -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
>Tommi Thompson wrote,
[snipped]
Anyway, without quoting everything, there's another possible place
to look. Sometimes mail can get delivered OK in its entirety, but
the client won't display it. Depending on the storage method the
client uses, it may be possible to look directly with "more", an
editor, "od -c | more", or something similar. (But make sure
it's not sensitive to ^Z :)
For example, Eudora 2.2 (32) stores the messages for folder X
in file X.mbx and message locators in file X.toc (and attachments
elsewhere--another story). When something really screwball confused
it (a mis-attached attachment or something), I was able to look directly
into the .mbx file and see what came in (no further details--I've
forgotten, except that I knew what it was and didn't want it so
I just deleted the message).
Then one could, if it's all there, maybe see what confuses the
client during the display process *IF* (and a big IF) that's where
the problem lies.
It *may* be possible to copy the message to a "new" folder and do
this experiment with less clutter around.
Just a thought,
Stan
