Christopher Jahn wrote:
> And it came to pass that AC Ucisik wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been using Mozilla 0.9.1 as my primary mail and news
>>client at home since shortly after its release couple of
>>weeks ago. I think it's a great improvement and so far I am
>>quite happy with it.
>>
>>But, today, I somehow bumped into a serious problem with my
>>mails. When Mozilla tries to download my new messages from
>>the POP server, it says that it's downloading 1 of 11
>>messages. But shortly after that, a message pops up saying
>>"Unable to write the e-mail to the mailbox. Make sure the
>>file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough
>>disk space to copy the mailbox." And then I see a message
>>with some strange characters in its subject and body. I
>>don't know if the problem has anything to do with that
>>particular message, but in the past half an hour, it does
>>this everytime it checks new messages on the server and
>>brings up the same message, but not the rest of the new
>>messages.
>>
>>I don't have any problem with three news accounts I
>>regularly use. I checked the write privileges of the folder
>>where inbox resides in and did not see any problem. I have
>>about 2 gigs of empty space on the drive on which my
>>application data is and about 30 gigs of space on the drive
>>on which Mozilla is installed. There are currently 172
>>messages in my mailbox and the size of the inbox file is
>>101,099 KB. Strangely enough, its size does not change when
>>I move half of the messages to another folder and compact
>>all folders.
>>
>>Any help appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks and regards,
>>Ahmet
>>
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like a corrupt summary file.
> Close ALL instances of Mozilla.
>
> Locate the file "INBOX.MSF" for the account in question.
> DELETE the file.
> DO NOT delete the "inbox" that has no extension - that's where
> the mail actually lives.
>
> When you re-start Mozilla, you should be able to donwload your
> messages.
>
>
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the answer. I did what you've said. Although this
did not helped, it inspired me other things. After backing
up the folders to another drive, I spent almost an hour
deleting and creating profiles to no avail. As a final
resort, I ran Outlook Express with "leave messages on
server" checked. It downloaded all the new messages and then
I deleted that strange looking message on the server. It was
possibly a virus-generated mail. When I go back to Mozilla,
everything was just fine. But I can't figure out why Mozilla
rejected to copy this message onto my drive. I don't think
that the developers implemented such a sense into Mozilla.
Regards,
Ahmet
