Juan, Thanks for your golden advice. Deleting the msf file did solve the issue. Many thanks.
Ignace Danneels Juan Tamad wrote: > ignacedanneels wrote: > >> I have had a problem with my inbox. suddenly, for no odd reason, my >> inbox messages are no longer displayed. When the mouse pointer is >> over the inbox, it does indicate there are some 80 messages. When new >> messages arrived, the counter is updated, but the messages remain >> invisible. >> I had to rename the inbox.xxx in the mozilla directory to something >> else. That name then shows up in the mail box. The mail >> automatically recreates the inbox item, which allowed my to receive >> new messages. >> What I did detect was that my inbox limit had just exceeded the 10Mb >> barrier (hence the subject name). I have no clue if that is the >> actual reason for this phenomenon. >> I have written numerous times to Netscape, but it's like talking to a >> brick wall. The only reply one gets, it the automated answer. For >> the rest, they don't care about the users. >> >> The problem with renaming is still that some mails are in the old >> inbox, but I had to consider them lost (since I have no way of >> retrieving the information). >> >> If anyone has experienced the same issue, or has a way to solve it, >> rather than to circumvent it, please let me know. > > > First try this, you can safely delete all .msf files in your mailbox, > they are only indexes (Message Summary Files) and they will be rebuilt. > This usually solves the problem. > > If I am to base from your headers you are using Netscape 6.1 which is > based on Mozilla 0.9.2, maybe you can try 0.9.5 or even the latest > nightly maybe 10/23 or the second build of 10/24. Hope I haven't > confused you. >
