victor levadi wrote: > The first thing that I tried was deleting the inbox.snm file. In the past, > Netscape would regenerate the file. Today the program reads the inbox file, > but apparently only recognizes that one message at the end. Additional > messages can be added at the end of that file. Removing the new messages > leaves a very large file will all the old messages in it, but Netscape > doesn't recognize them. > > Any suggestions? My last resort is to get a definition of the file format > and see if that will provide enough information to repair the file. >
Have all the messages that have disappeared re-appeared in your Trash folder? I'm wondering if you've somehow deleted them all. When you delete a message it just gets *flagged* as deleted and copied to Trash - the message still exists in your Inbox. Open your Inbox in an editor (make a backup copy first) and look for lines beginning ``X-Mozilla-Status:'' I don't know all the codes, but 0000 = unread, 0001 = read, 0009 = deleted. BTW, if you edit the file and save it make sure you delete the index file. As to the file format it is Unix mbox, i.e. plain text, just think of the problems you'd have if it was in Outlook's proprietry binary format! HTH Regards, Parish HTH > Any help will be appreciated > > vic > > victor levadi wrote: > >> I have a very large mail file in 4.7, which Netscape has stopped >> displaying. I must have been careless in moving the file. There are more >> than a thousand messages in this file, and I want to be able to keep >> them in the Netscape mail file system with all of the other filed >> messages. I could write a script to extract all of the messages and >> header info, but that won't allow me to file the messages in the >> Nestcape file system. >> >> I have looked at the file and I can see no obvious irregularity. The >> file begins with "From - " and ends with OA OD .OA OD. Netscape appears >> to read the file, but not display it in the Inbox window. One new >> message was received and netscape appended it to the file. This new >> message is displayed. >> >> Can someone enlighten me about the format for the mail file so that I >> can patch the current file, even if it means losing a message at the >> beginning or end, although both ends of the file look "clean", before >> and after Netscape added the new message. I've tried taking one or two >> individual messages from the large file, but can't get them to display. >> Can someone tell me where to get the specs for the inbox file? >> >> I'm overlooking something, and I need help ASAP. >> >> Vic > > -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free -Linus Torvalds
