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.
> 


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