And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
>>Andreas Koch wrote:
>>
>>>just got about 10 mails from my mail server...
>>>The captions where different, but the mails
>>>all contained the same body! It's length was
>>>slightly different, sometimes cutting away
>>>parts of the signature, sometimes adding part
>>>of the header of the next message.
>>>
>>>The original mail texts seem to be lost;
>>>fortunately all of them where from a mailing
>>>list that has an online archive, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>Seems NS forgot to advance a sort of
>>>position window on the memory where it downloaded
>>>the mails to.
>>>
> What software, which exact version, are you using?
>
>>Hve you tried deleting the *.msf file? I've seen this
>>problem before, and that usually fixes it.
>>
> Are the msf files used for *writing*? I don't think, they
> should. I thought, they are for faster reading of the mboxes
> only.
>
>
They are used for "retrieving" the file for display. If they
are corrupted, they may mix things up. As I said, I've seen
this before. But I'm not a programmer, just someone who
observes cause and effect. perhaps it's a wild coincidence.
--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
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