Christoph Mueller wrote: > Hi all > > I have a big problem with my mozilla mail client > > Some mails show with correct subject and sender in my Inbox, but when > i click on them, i see (in the lower right text window) either > - no text at all (and a "subject" and "from" line that does not fit > the one in the upper window) > - random ascii characters > - thhe first part of the source code of the mail, but cut before the > text starts > - a complete different email, including different subject, sender and > send time, from another folder of my inbox > > when i look at the source code of the mail (via view/message source), > it matches what is shown in the text window > > No matter how often i restart mozilla, it are always the same mails > that are messed up in exactly the same way. > I have used mozilla for a week and received >100 mails, and have > imported ca. 1000 mails from my old netscape account, but this affects > only the mails from today. > > There seems no connection between the affected mails. they are from > different people with different software, and other people can read > those messages without problems on their systems (i know this, because > some mails are from a mailing list). > I have tested it with mails from the same source, and some got > corrupted and some not. > So far, no test mails that i sent to myself got corrupted. > > There are some important mails among the corrupted, and I desperately > need a way to read them. >
This may not be the cause of your problem, but I have experienced these causes in the past (might have been with NS 4.x rather than Mozilla): 1. The index file is corrupt. Try deleting the .MSF files (after exiting Moz) in: D:\Documents and Settings\marko\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\Mark\5j87le7j.slt\Mail\pop.ntlworld.com Change "Mark", "5j87le7j.slt", and "pop.ntlworld.com" to the correct strings for your setup. 2. There is some garbage in one of the e-mails. One example I found is a line in the body of an e-mail that started with the word "From" that didn't have a ">" prepended to it. If the ">" is missing the mail reader may/will see it as the start of a message (the first line of an e-mail is the "From" line) and from there on in it gets confused. 3. I also once edited my Inbox and managed to removed all instances of the boundary string so I had a line like: Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------5543D3C07B11C81319AFF5E0" but no matching lines ------------5543D3C07B11C81319AFF5E0 Before you start editing your Inbox I *STRONGLY* suggest that you make a backup copy and also delete the Inbox.msf so that Moz is forced to rebuild it from the edited file. HTH. Parish > I could not find a bug on bugzilla or a posting that mentions this > problem. > > Please help me! > > Thanks a lot > > > p.s. > My System is: > win2k pro, Service Pack 2 > Mozilla 0.9.5 > ( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) > Gecko/20011011 ) > Pentium 550, 128 MB RAM, 10 GB disk space free >
