ok i was able to manually delete the mail, thinks seem cool. i'm
hesitant to file a bug because i'm pretty sure it was due to something i
did in shuffling some profiles around (new harddrive, copied all my shit
over, re-installed mozilla). the problem came when i was copying my
mail folder over, i got an error "file Inbox is in use or locked.. blah
blah" .. as if an application was using the file, yet mozilla was not
open. nor was the file attributed as read only. somehow i was able to
get it moved over (i don't remember how) but i probably fucked the file
up and thus caused the crash...
BUT, i think the fact that i couldn't copy my Inbox file due to an access
error is kinda odd, perhaps i should file that as a bug? i was able to
reproduce it twice, but it's seemingly random. perhaps mozilla is not
properly releasing the mail files on exit? i believe this may be the
case, because i had looked in the Inbox file, closed it, re-opened
mozilla, deleted some emails, closed mozilla, then looked at the Inbox
file again, and the messages I had just deleted were still present in
the Inbox file. my changes did not show up in the Inbox file until I
rebooted the system. this leads me to believe that maybe mozilla does
not properly write/release the Inbox file upon exit.
i'm going to play around with it and see if i can reproduce this.
-j
Scott Putterman wrote:
> In addition to what Seth wrote, if your message isn't private you could
> either post it as an attachment in a bug report or mail it to whoever
> owns the bug you file which would probably be [EMAIL PROTECTED] if
> the crash is in MIME.
>
> Scott
>
>
> Seth Spitzer wrote:
>
>> juanto cabronito wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yo, I've got some bloody email with a large (692k) MIME
>>> attachment, and every time I select the message, Mozilla (2001021404,
>>> Win98SE) crashes:
>>>
>>> MOZILLA caused an invalid page fault in
>>> module MIME.DLL at 0177:6048100a.
>>> Registers:
>>> EAX=0c244c8b CS=0177 EIP=6048100a EFLGS=00010287
>>> EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=0068f8a4 EBP=0068f908
>>> ECX=00000000 DS=017f ESI=60496b6e FS=12ef
>>> EDX=00000000 ES=017f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
>>> Bytes at CS:EIP:
>>> 8b 40 08 85 c0 74 06 eb f1 6a 01 58 c3 33 c0 c3
>>> Stack dump:
>>> 6048106e 0c244c8b 6049d558 6048d537 60496b6e 6049d558 00000024
>>> 02058420 00000024 6048d54d 60496b6e 00000001 0205c230 00000001
>>> 6048d54d 02058420
>>>
>>> My question is this: How can I manually trash this message? If I
>>> select it to move it to the trash, Mozilla crashes. If I select it
>>> as part of a multiple-selection, then move the group of selected
>>> messages to the trash, Mozilla hangs.
>>>
>>> If I can't clear out this message, I fear that my entire Inbox
>>> (600qty, 5 years of important emails) will not be salvageable.
>>>
>>> Help me Obi Wan, you're my only hope.
>>
>>
>>
>> this is a local message, right? if imap, start up another client
>> (like 4.x or outlook) and see if you can delete the message.
>>
>> if local, you can edit the mbox folder on disk, and remove the
>> message. or, you can find the mbox file on disk, drop it into Mail
>> directory for a 4.x profile, start up 4.x, and use 4.x to remove the
>> message.
>>
>> if the folder is named "Inbox", do a file search for all files named
>> "Inbox" to help you find it.
>>
>> make a copy of the file before you do this, just in case. and, after
>> we fix your situation, help us by logging a bug. if you can get us a
>> stack trace, perhaps we can fix it.
>>
>> -Seth
>>
>>>
>>
>>
